The first thing you need to learn before playing the piano is the piano notes. What are they called? A standard piano keyboard has 88 keys on it including the black notes. The first notes to learn are the white notes, but how do go about memorizing the names of all those white notes.
Don’t panic, there are just seven white notes to learn and that’s it. Well not quite, there are indeed just seven white notes to learn, but you also have to identify were they occur on a keyboard. As for the black notes, they are sharps and flats of the white notes. So when you know what the white notes are called then you almost certainly will know what all the black notes are called as well.
As a beginner, you only need to learn the white notes and though your piano may have up to eighty-eight notes, there are just seven white notes to learn. Those notes are C, D, E, F, G, A and B, these notes are recurring throughout the keyboard. As a beginner, you will only make use of the first five notes and in one part of the keyboard, nevertheless this shouldn’t prevent you from learning each white note on the piano.
The next thing is to find where the notes are on the piano. To do this you can look for shapes on the piano keyboard that is to find sets of three black notes together and sets of two black notes together. To do this you need access to a piano keyboard, if you don’t have a piano or a keyboard then you should be able to find yourself a picture of a keyboard, there are lots available on the internet Now, lets find the first shape. You are looking for two black notes together, think of it a shape, you should see lots of sets of two black notes together. Now pick one instance of two black notes together, it doesn’t matter which two, and you will see that they are surrounded by three white notes. One white note to the left of the first black note, the next white note is between the two black notes and a white note to the right of the second black note. The first white note, that’s the one to the left of the first black note is called C, the second white note, the one in the middle is called D and the final note is called E.
Carrying on from the last note which is E, if we now move on to the very next white note to the right, this note is called F, then G, A and B. The last note played which is B is the first white note just after the last black note in the set of three. So to recap you should have played a white note before the set of two black notes, a white note just after the set of three black notes and all the white notes in between. This adds up to seven white notes. If you carry on up the keyboard, the process repeats itself using the same letters. You should now be able to find and name any white note on a piano keyboard.
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