Piano notes chart
Every note from C2, two ledger lines below the bass staff, to C6, two above the treble staff: 29 white keys, each note written over the key it plays. Print it and stand it on the music rest.
Treble staff, lines from the bottom: E4, G4, B4, D5 and F5; spaces: F4, A4, C5 and E5 (they spell F A C E).
Bass staff, lines from the bottom: G2, B2, D3, F3 and A3; spaces: A2, C3, E3 and G3.
Piano notes chart, from clefsight.com/learn/piano-notes-chart. Read them at a MIDI keyboard there and every answer is timed.
Find middle C on your keyboard
The black keys come in groups of two and three. Every C is the white key just left of a group of two. Middle C is the C nearest the middle: on an 88-key piano it is the fourth C from the left; on a 76-key keyboard the third; on 61 and 49 keys, which start on a C, the third.
Every keyboard size reaches the whole chart.
Letter names and octave numbers
The white keys are named with seven letters, C, D, E, F, G, A and B, then the letters start again. The number after a letter says which octave it is in, and it goes up at every C, not at A: the key below C4 is B3. So middle C is C4, and the chart's Cs are C2, C3, C4, C5 and C6.
Each line and space of the staff is the next white key: step up from a line to the space above it and you move one key to the right. That is why the chart's notes climb the staff one place at a time while the keys go one key at a time.
The black keys
A black key takes its name from a white neighbour. A sharp (♯) raises a note to the next key on the right, a flat (♭) lowers it to the next key on the left, so the black key between C and D is both C♯ and D♭. There is no black key between E and F or between B and C: there, E♯ is F and B♯ is C. Which name is written depends on the key the music is in (key signatures say which).
Notes beyond the chart
Music goes further with more ledger lines: Clefsight's drills on the far ledger lines read the notes down to C1 and up to C7. The ledger lines guide shows how to count them. The 88-key piano runs from A0 to C8, and the pieces in the library reach from C1 to G7.
Now read them without the chart. The grand staff drill shows one note at a time, across both staves; play it on a MIDI keyboard or the keys on screen as soon as you read it. Every answer is timed and goes on your reading map.
Start the drillHow to read it: How to read piano sheet music: the grand staff. On paper: note-naming worksheets for the grand staff, the treble clef, the bass clef and ledger lines, with the answers on a second page.