First pageLesson 1 of 7
The keyboard
Find any note on the keys by its letter.
The keys go up in pitch from left to right. The white keys are named with seven letters, A to G, and then the letters start again: after G comes A.
The black keys come in groups of two and three, and they are how you find your place. C is the white key just left of each group of two; F is the white key just left of each group of three. From C the white keys go C, D, E, F, G, A, B, and then the next C.
Every C sounds like every other C, only higher or lower. The C nearest the middle of the keyboard is middle C (on a full 88-key piano, the fourth C from the left), the note this course starts from and the one your thumbs will share on your first page.