Piano Lessons: Teach Yourself to Play

Explore the fundamentals of playing piano. Learn about sitting, hand position, reading notes, playing chords, melodic intervals, harmonic intervals, triads, progressions, and more.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. The Basics

• Seating position and proper hand technique
• The keyboard
• Right-hand C position
• Quarter notes and half notes
• Left-hand C position
• The whole note
• The grand staff

2. Melodic Intervals

• Melodic intervals: 2nds
• Melodic intervals: 3rds
• Melodic intervals: 4ths
• Melodic intervals: 5ths

3. Introducing Harmony

• Harmonic intervals: 2nds and 3rds
• Harmonic intervals: 4ths and 5ths
• The sharp sign
• The C major chord
• B for the left hand
• B for the right hand
• 3/4 time and dotted half notes
• A for the left hand
• The damper pedal

4. New Rhythms and Intervals

• Eighth notes
• The dotted quarter note
• Intervals: 6ths
• Syncopated notes
• Moving up and down the keyboard in 6ths
• Intervals: 7ths and octaves
• The flat sign

5. Music Theory

• Measuring half steps and whole steps
• The major scale
• More about chords
• About the blues
• RH: An extended position
• The G major scale

6. Progressions and Triplets

• Triads and progressions
• A new style of bass
• Eighth note triplets

Conclusion

• Closing and credits