Devin Renee Miller Music

My First Piano Lesson

Categories: Beginner, Instrument, Keys, Piano
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About Course

Welcome to Building Foundations: My First Piano Lesson! This course is designed to help you get your footing and to decide which route of piano learning you like best. Whether that’s learning to read sheet music completely, learning how to play chords for radio songs/singing along with, or a mixture of the two! Piano is for everyone, and here is the easiest place to get started on your journey.

Course Breakdown: 

Together we will start with learning the seven letters of our musical alphabet and how to apply those to the piano keys. We will learn our sharps and flats. We will also take a look at our ver critical basics of posture. We will cover everything you need to build your foundation of piano learning right!

We will take a look at a classic song that everyone of all ages knows, “Twinkle Twinkle” and learn our three main ways of playing it. We will learn to read our Treble Clef staff, and play through the song’s melody. Then we will learn the chords to play and sing “Twinkle Twinkle”. Lastly we will put both together and play through chords on the left hand and melody on the right hand. We will even get a starter introduction to playing with a metronome!

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What Will You Learn?

  • How to read piano keys
  • How read simple sheet musics
  • How to play your first chords

Course Content

Introduction
Welcome to Building Foundations: My First Piano Lesson! Here you will have your very first piano lesson at your own pace. Take your time going through each section. Watch each lesson as many times as you need to, and gain a basic understanding of your piano at the end of this course.

  • Welcome!
    00:00
  • Where to Start? Posture
    00:00
  • Finger Numbers & Musical Alphabet
    00:00

Understanding The Keys
Let's take a look at our pianos and break down how to read the keys!

My First Piano Song
Let's take a look at a simple classic! We'll break down how to play a full song on the piano.

Conclusion
Now you have a basic understanding of the piano! This is everything that I teach my in person students in their very first lesson, enough to give you the confidence to know what you're looking at when you sit down at a piano. From here, you'll get to make the choice to either continue down the "Classical" route by learning to read more complex sheet musics (this can be either classical genre music or even popular songs that have been transcribed to sheets). Or down the "pop/popular" piano route, where you'll learn to play chords and rhythms to play along with your favorite artists. The choice is yours!