https://teddyrookbook.com/music/piano-basics/Recent content in Piano Basics on Teddy Rook Bookhttps://teddyrookbook.com/img/share.jpghttps://teddyrookbook.com/img/share.jpgHugoenhttps://teddyrookbook.com/music/piano-basics/meet-the-keyboard/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/piano-basics/meet-the-keyboard/Low notes and high notes, white keys and black keys, and the groups of two and three black keys that work as your map.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/piano-basics/finding-c/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/piano-basics/finding-c/Find every C with the black keys as your guide, learn the seven letter names of the white keys, and meet octaves and middle C.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/piano-basics/sitting-and-hand-shape/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/piano-basics/sitting-and-hand-shape/Where to sit, how high and how far away, and the relaxed, curved hand shape that makes playing feel easy.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/piano-basics/finger-numbers/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/piano-basics/finger-numbers/Thumb is 1, little finger is 5, on both hands. Learn the numbers that music uses to tell you which finger plays which note.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/piano-basics/c-position/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/piano-basics/c-position/Five fingers on five white keys: where each hand goes in C position, how to keep it still, and your first notes with both hands. Then G position.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/piano-basics/steps-and-skips/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/piano-basics/steps-and-skips/Melodies move by steps (to the very next key), skips (over one key) and repeats. Play them, hear them, and see them on the page.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/piano-basics/sharps-and-flats/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/piano-basics/sharps-and-flats/Every black key has two names. Learn what sharp and flat mean, and the half steps and whole steps that every scale is built from.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/piano-basics/pedals/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/piano-basics/pedals/What the right, left and middle pedals do on a grand piano, an upright and a digital piano, and how to use the sustain pedal lightly.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/piano-basics/practice-and-first-tunes/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/piano-basics/practice-and-first-tunes/Short daily sessions, slow first, hands separately then together, and the metronome. Then play your first songs with the notes lit up.