Building Foundations: My First Piano Lesson

Learn fundamentals and basics of playing the piano. Includes your first piano song!

What you'll learn

Notes on the Piano

How to Read Treble Clef

Your First Piano Song

Basic Chords

Requirements

No experience necessary. Need your own piano/keyboard at home

Description

Welcome to Building Foundations: My First Piano Lesson! This course is designed to help you get your footing and to decide which route of piano learning you like best. Whether that's learning to read sheet music completely, learning how to play chords for radio songs/singing along with, or a mixture of the two! Piano is for everyone, and here is the easiest place to get started on your journey. Course Breakdown: Together we will start with learning the seven letters of our musical alphabet and how to apply those to the piano keys. We will learn our sharps and flats. We will also take a look at our ver critical basics of posture. We will cover everything you need to build your foundation of piano learning right! We will take a look at a classic song that everyone of all ages knows, "Twinkle Twinkle" and learn our three main ways of playing it. We will learn to read our Treble Clef staff, and play through the song's melody. Then we will learn the chords to play and sing "Twinkle Twinkle". Lastly we will put both together and play through chords on the left hand and melody on the right hand. We will even get a starter introduction to playing with a metronome!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Where to Start

Lecture 2 Posture

Lecture 3 Finger Numbers & Musical Alphabet

Section 3: Understanding the Keys

Lecture 4 Identifying the Keys

Lecture 5 Five Finger Scale

Lecture 6 Sharps & Flats

Lecture 7 Identification Exercise

Section 4: My First Piano Song

Lecture 8 Reading Sheet Music

Lecture 9 Playing at 60 bpm

Lecture 10 Playing at 120 bpm

Lecture 11 Our First Chords

Section 5: Conclusion

Lecture 12 Conclusion

Someone starting at the very beginning of learning piano