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Learn to play the piano with free lessons. Learn to read music chords, scales, and get piano tips. Have you ever wanted to learn how to play the piano? It does seem a little different than other instruments. To play the guitar you can learn by fingering a chord chart.

If you can play guitar you can learn to play piano too.

The piano extends the chord chart and lets you play both the melody and the chords of an entire song. YOU CAN PLAY THE CHORDS IN YOUR LEFT HAND AND THE MELODY IN YOUR RIGHT HAND.

It lets you play just the bass guitar line and the melody. Play the bass line in your left hand and the melody in your right hand.

It lets you play both the bass line and the chords together. Play the bass line in your left hand and the chords in your right hand.

It lets you play just the bass guitar line and whatever else, whether you want, the melody, the chords, or an arrangement that combines the two that is found in sheet music.

HOW MUCH FUN IT IS TO PLAY THE BASS LINE IN 25 OR 6 TO 4 BY CHICAGO.

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WE START WITH THE FINGERINGS

Your left hand as 5 4 3 2 1=THUMB and your right hand is THUMB=1 2 3 4 5.

Your thumb is 1 and goes to your pinky at 5. Before you learn notes you can play by fingerings. Start at middle C.

Middle C is where it says it is in the middle of the keyboard usually under the brand name.

Find the group of 2 black keys and the group of 3 black keys. Look at the group of 2 black keys. C IS THE WHITE KEY TO THE LEFT OF THE TWO BLACK KEYS.

Put your thumb of your right hand on C. This is playing fingering 1. Put your next finger on the next white key. This is playing fingering 2. Put your next finger on the next white key. This is playing fingering 3. Put your next finger on the next white key. This is playing fingering 4. Put your pinky on the next white key. This is playing fingering 5. Look at the white keys and you can play an entire melody using 5 notes with the finger positions of 1 ,2, 3, 4, and 5. Note that the 1 to 5 finger positions play the notes C D E F G.

Play the 1, 3, and 5 fingers and you have played a chord. The chord is C major.

The fingers of the left hand can play the C chord. Go down an octave by going down to the left to the next group of 2 black keys.

C is the white key to the left. This time you can put your left hand pinky on it and put your other fingers on the next white key up to the thumb on the 5th white key.

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Play the 1,3, and 5 fingers and you have played the C chord an octave lower.

You can play the C as a bass note in your left hand and the C chord in your right hand at the same time.

THE KEYBOARD

Next, you need to know how the keyboard is formed-in OCTAVES.

An OCTAVE is 8 notes in a group.

The MUSICAL ALPHABET starts with A B C D E F G and then repeats the seven notes again. After G you go back at A and start over again. From A B C D E F G A

From A to A is 8 notes or an octave.

It is beneficial to learn the C octave. It starts on C D E F G A B and ends on C. The last C is an octave higher than the first C.

FIND THE OCTAVE FROM MIDDLE C TO C

THE KEYBOARD

As you look on the keyboard, you can see that it forms a pattern. There are two groups of black keys in sets of 2 and 3. There are 7 white keys around them. The seven white notes and 5 black notes make up 12 notes.

Next lesson is the keyboard

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