Piano
Keyboard geography, fingering, hand coordination, technique and repertoire.
Piano
Keyboard geography, fingering, hand coordination, technique and repertoire.
Level 1
Find any key by its landmarks, then finger numbers, the five-finger position on C, and your right hand playing on its own.
Finding your way
Eighty-eight keys, two landmarks: how to find any note on a keyboard in about a second, without counting from either end.
4 minStart →
Five fingers, five notes
Five keys, five fingers, one each — and the hardest part is keeping the hand still.
5 minStart →
The left hand
The same five-finger shape an octave down — and the one thing about it that catches everyone out.
5 minStart →
Both hands together
Nothing new to know, and the hardest thing so far. Two notes have to arrive at the same instant.
6 minStart →
What finishing this level means
- Find C and F on an unlabelled keyboard, from the black-key groups
- Play every note of the C five-finger position
- Play the left hand in five-finger position
- Play one note in each hand together
- Play one piece all the way through at its tempo
Level 2
The finger numbers, and the mirror between the two hands.
What finishing this level means
- Name the finger for any note of a five-finger position, either hand
Level 3
The black keys by touch, and the octaves where the left hand actually plays.
The black keys by feel
Finding the sharps and flats without looking for a label.
7 minStart →
Where the left hand really sits
Down an octave and more, where accompaniment actually lives.
6 minStart →
What finishing this level means
- Find any black key with the labels hidden
- Find the notes an octave and a half below middle C
Level 4
Two more octaves, found by the black-key groups rather than by counting.
The octave above
The same five notes, an octave up, found without looking.
6 minStart →
Two octaves down
Where a real bass line lives, and why counting stops working there.
6 minStart →
What finishing this level means
- Find notes an octave above and two octaves below middle C
Level 5
The keys between the two hand positions, and the black keys the left hand needs.
Between the hands
The two white keys that belong to neither five-finger position.
6 minStart →
The black keys below
Sharps and flats in the octave the left hand actually plays in.
6 minStart →
What finishing this level means
- Find A and B below middle C without looking
- Find the black keys in the octave below middle C