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🎹Piano from your first key

Sit down at a keyboard and actually play real songs with both hands

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Why the piano is the easy one to start on

The black keys come in groups of two and three

Finding C

The musical alphabet and where the notes live

Octaves

Posture and hand shape

Finger numbers

Your first five-finger position

Playing a tiny melody

The staff and the two clefs

Reading the notes on each staff

Note values and rhythm

Time signatures and counting

Half steps, whole steps, sharps and flats

The major scale and the C major pattern

Intervals, triads, and your first chords

Major, minor, and inversions

Chord progressions that play pop songs

Playing hands together

The sustain pedal

Dynamics and expression

Common beginner mistakes

Practice and sight-reading

Your first four weeks

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