Learn piano: the path
The keys, reading music, note values, the first chords, inversions, scales — every stop a page with sound, reference and something to play along to.
At the piano you can see the music: black and white, low on the left, high on the right. That is why much of it goes faster here than on other instruments — if you keep to the order. Here it is.
The path
- 1Virtual pianoTwo black, three black — that is how you find every C, and from there every other note.
- 2How to read sheet musicThe five lines, the clef, the names of the notes — the start in six steps.
- 3Note valuesHow long a note lasts and how to count. Without that, every piece stays guesswork.
- 4The first chordsSix triads that sit under the hand — and the songs made of nothing else.
- 5The first piecePieces that fit under five fingers — with notation, fingering and sound.
- 6InversionsSame notes, different order: that is how the hand gets from one chord to the next without jumping.
- 7ScalesMajor and minor with fingering: which finger where, so the thumb can pass under.
- 8Chord progressionsThe progressions songs are built from, written out in every key.
- 9Ear trainingHearing what you play — guessing intervals and chords until the hand follows the ear.
Top to bottom, but without hurry: a stop is done when it works without thinking. Already playing? Find the place where it gets stuck.
And then
After that a teacher helps more than any page — for posture, the hand, the sound. What is here takes the theory off their plate, not the lesson.
Anotona does this for you
Photograph a page of sheet music or play the melody — Anotona finds the key, engraves the notes and transposes them into any other. Free.
See AnotonaEvery note on this page is computed, not typed in — following the rule that also makes F# major spell its seventh degree E#, not F.