Learning to play piano may seem like a daunting task. I mean, look at the piano keyboard, it's huge! How are you supposed to play that in any sort of tune and in any sort of time? Let me give you one piece of advice which a friend of mine told me jsut before I started to learn piano, which brought it all into perspective and made me realise that I actually may be able to learn to play the piano. Here's comes that little secret . . . There are only 12 notes! That's it, plain and simple - there are actually only 12 notes on a keyboard - they're just repeated over and over again to make up the full keyboard. When you hear a beautiful Mozart Piano Sonata, it is made up of various combinations of just 12 notes When you hear a Beatles song, it is made up of various combinations of 12 notes! And when you hear any children's nursery rhyme played one note at a time on a piano - that too is made up of, you guessed it, 12 notes! All you have to do is to learn those 12 notes, and it'll improve your confidence by a long shot and make it much easier to learn piano. So here we go with what the 12 notes are, and just a bit of the basics to get you going. 1. The 12 notes are: A, A#, B, C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G# and then back to "??A"?? to start all over again 2. Each set of 12 notes is called an "Octave" 3. The 12 notes are made up of 7 white notes - A, B, C, D, E, F, and G, and 5 black notes (these are the ones with the "#" (Sharp), i.e. A Sharp, C Sharp, D Sharp, F Sharp and G Sharp 4. There is no black note for B# or E# 5. The black notes are organised in sets of 2 and then 3. The note "C" is the whote note which always comes just to the left of each set of 2 black notes. 6. The space between one note and the very next in the octave is called a "Semitone" (e.g. from A to A# is a semitone) 7. As long as they have a black note separating them, the space between 2 white notes is called a "Tone" So go on - dive in - it's a lot easier than you think to learn piano.
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