Easy Piano Lesson – The Basics Of Piano Lessons
// July 19th, 2010 // No Comments » // Music
When you’re just beginning with your easy piano lesson, it is always best to begin with something you can be familiar with easily. {How about the Middle C}? You don’t know what Middle C is? It is the centermost key of the piano. If you know how a C key looks like, the Middle C is the white key that sits closest to the printed name of the manufacturer of your piano.
From there, you could work out the meanings of the note, scale, octave, chord and chord progression.
As your first lesson, rest your right thumb on the Middle C. This is what is called in piano training as the first position. Note that when it comes to playing the piano, each finger on your hand correspond to a specific number. Thumb is the number one finger and the rest of the fingers are the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th fingers. In the 1st position, your thumb or your number one finger should rest on Middle C. You will see that in other piano lessons, both thumbs rest on the Middle C for the number one position, however for now your right thumb will do.
Moving on, rest all your fingers in their designated keys. Now, lightly press each key from Middle C until you reach the next C. What you just formed is a scale, specifically C Major scale. Take note that in this scale, white keys are the only keys used. As you move on to more advanced piano lessons, you will learn that the rest of the scales involve the use of both white and black keys.
Using this scale, you can create several different chords. Chords are, by definition, any set of notes that are played as a group. From the C Major scale, you can form a number of different chords. Now rest your thumb on Middle C again. Press it, skip one white key and press the E key, then skip another white key and press the G key. What you just completed is the C major chord triad. A triad just C Major is a chord that composes of three notes. Other chords use four to five notes.
Another chord that can be created using this scale is the F Major chord. This is formed by pressing the F key, the A key and the C key. Now try and press the keys of this chord chord.
Somehow, did you notice something? Both the C major and F major chords are composed of chords that make up a pattern. This pattern is called the formula of the chord.
The pattern for major chords goes like this – root key, 4 halftones and 3 halftones. Remember that a halftone is the smallest possible interval between two notes. On the piano, this is the interval between two individual keys.
As you progress with your piano lessons, you will become familiar with the patterns for group of chords. Now, using the above formula, find the rest of the keys that make up the G major chord.
This easy piano lesson ends with a simple lesson on chord progression. Remember the chords you have learned earlier – C Major, F major and G Major? Play these chords in succession and finish with a final C major. Now, you’re on to something.




