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Beginner Piano Lessons

Free Online Piano Lessons

Enjoy free beginner piano lessons to teach you the very first steps to learn this amazing instrument.

In these beginner piano lessons you will start playing by ear. Your playing will sound lovely almost immediately, and you need absolutely no previous skills at all!

You will learn about the layout of the piano keyboard, piano fingering and the names of the piano keys.

There will be a short introduction to what musical intervals are and how they can help you improvise beautiful music. These beginner piano lessons are suitable for all ages.

Playing the piano is not just for having fun and playing beautiful music, but has been proven to help improve many other skills as well, like spatial-reasoning, organization and memory for example.

Learning Piano as an Adult.


Beginner Piano Lessons Can I start to play the piano as an adult? Later beginners sometimes wonder if it is too late to begin learning an instrument as a teenager or as an adult.

Read more about why learning to play the piano is never too late, and not only that, but learning to play an instrument is really good for you as well!


Selecting a Piano Method:


When you start learning to play the piano, it is important that you get a good piano method. This book will take you step by step from scratch to wherever you want to go. The material is in graded levels of difficulty, so that you will not miss any vital steps of knowledge.

There are fantastic beginner methods available today, inexpensive and presenting you with many different musical styles. Most even come with accompaniment CD’s! Here is a review of Beginner Piano Sheet Music to help you select a great piano method for adult beginners.

Online Piano Courses:


For a complete online beginner piano lessons course you can also learn to play the piano with online piano lesson packages. There are two online courses that stand out more than others:
  • Rocket Piano Rocket Piano is one of the most popular and budget friendly piano courses available today, this course you can also download immediately. Make sure to take advantage of the 6 free lessons, and a fun note learning software you get absolutely free!!
  • After you sign up for your free lessons (really good- I tried them!)you will also receive a free Pdf of a Music Theory book with a nice and clean progress and layout. So just go ahead and try it!

  • Learn and Master Piano Is a high quality beginner piano lesson course for studying on your own. You will learn many different styles of playing with many DVDs, books and other helpful resources.This piano course really delivers what it promises. You will learn to play the piano! This is my number one recommended product to teach yourself piano.

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Free Piano Lessons for Beginners:


The following piano lesson videos are meant to introduce you to piano playing. The only thing you need is a keyboard or a piano.

In these first four beginner piano lessons you will learn to play by ear, so no note reading or sheet music is needed yet! You can simply focus on making a beautiful sound and the good feeling of just making music!

Before you begin:

  1. First of all make sure you sit at the piano with the correct posture. Read all about how to sit with the correct posture at the piano here.

  2. Next, prepare your hands for playing. Learn how to keep a comfortable hand posture when playing the piano.

  • Lesson 1:
  • In the first lesson you will learn how to find your way on the piano keyboard. You will learn about the pattern of the black and white keys, finger numbers, the names of the keys and where “up” and “down” is on the piano keyboard.

    You will also learn to create music by playing and improvising on a pentatonic scale using the black keys.

  • Lesson 2:
  • Lesson two will teach you how to quickly and easily find the proper hand position on the keyboard. You will continue to practice the note names on the white keys, learn two five-finger positions in D-minor and C-major and how to play chords.

    You will discover that melodies can move in steps, repeats and skips or leaps. You will also start practicing easy finger strengthening exercises. Finally you will practice your finger numbers by learning to play the famous theme "Ode to Joy" from L. van Beethoven's 9th Symphony, with both hands.

  • Lesson 3:
  • In lesson three you will learn more about 5 finger positions and how to play music chords. You will continue to strengthen your fingers with easy piano exercises. We will look at intervals and how to use different intervals to accompany a melody as well as to use as a foundation for improvisation.

  • Lesson 4:
  • The fourth lesson will use what you have learned in the previous beginner piano lessons (Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Lesson 3) in a couple of folk songs. You will also learn a very easy way to improvise, or make up your own music!

Learn to Read Piano Music:

Are you ready to learn how to read piano music? In the following two lessons you will learn to read music as you play the piano with a very easy reading method. You will quickly understand how to read notes with both hands from the grand staff.
  1. Learn to read piano music. Part 1
  2. Continue reading piano music. Part 2


Piano Software:


Piano Software Read about piano software, theory games and other music software to have more fun while learning about music and to play your instrument.

Piano Learning Software Can you really learn to play with piano learning software? Here are some recommendations of great piano learning software that may give you a boost in various areas of your music study.


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