Starting to Play Tunes

Now you have begun to find your way around the piano and have started to count the beat for music, you are ready to play some easy tunes.

Your first tunes are all played on the white keys which are in the middle of the keyboard.

Find and play the C which is nearest the middle of the keyboard. This note is Called MIDDLE C.(‘Middle C' is immediately in front of you – to the left of a group of two black keys – when you are sitting in the correct position facing the middle of the piano)

Now, play Middle C and the seven ‘white' notes to the right of it with a right- hand finger. Say the name of each note as you play it.

Then, play Middle ‘C' and the seven ‘white' notes to the left of it with a left- hand finger. Say the name of each note as you play it.

When you have done this, you will have played three Cs, two Ds, two Es, and So on. When you play tunes, you need to know exactly which notes to play. So, for the moment, we will use small ‘lower case' letters to name Middle C and notes to the right, and large ‘capital' letters for notes to the left of Middle C-

NOTES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE KEYBOARD

Use this drawing of the middle of the keyboard to find notes for the tunes on the facing page.

(The eight note above Middle C is marked c' so you can tell it from Middle C)

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