How to Play Piano

Experience hands-on lessons from a master piano instructor as you explore the building blocks of music.

• By This Professor
• 01: Basic Piano Rhythm and Fingering
• 02: Pitch and Off-Staff Notation
• 03: Tonic and Dominant Harmony
• 04: Intervals and Basic Notation
• 05: Major Chords and Simple Accompaniment
• 06: Fourths, Accidentals, and Relaxation
• 07: Primary Chords
• 08: Transposition at the Piano
• 09: Chord Inversions
• 10: Chord Progressions and Arpeggios
• 11: Accompaniment Patterns and Sight-Reading
• 12: Harmonization and Damper Pedal
• 13: Minor Finger Patterns and Chords
• 14: Articulation: Legato and Staccato
• 15: One-Octave Major Scales and Major Intervals
• 16: Dotted Rhythms and Isolated Repetition
• 17: Secondary Chords and More Dotted Rhythms
• 18: Sixteenth Notes and More Secondary Chords
• 19: Compound Meter and Technique
• 20: Parallel Major and Minor Keys
• 21: Three Forms of the Minor Scale and Syncopation
• 22: Artistic Expression and More Minor Keys
• 23: The Classical Period and Fortepianos
• 24: Seventh Chords and Sonata Form
• 25: Sight-Reading and Technique
• 26: The Romantic Period and Seventh-Chord Arpeggios
• 27: Extended Arpeggios and Pianist as Artist
• 28: More Romantic Repertoire
• 29: Sonata Form Revisited
• 30: The Baroque Era and Harpsichords
• 31: Baroque Repertoire
• 32: Deliberate Practice and Learning Music
• 33: The 20th Century and Modern Music
• 34: Chorale-Style Repertoire
• 35: Impressionism and the Una Corda Pedal
• 36: Triplets and Continuing Piano Study