July 8th, 2009 by Lisa | 58 Comments »
How to Read Music
Reading Music can be overwhelming at first. I put together a tutorial to give you an understanding of how music on the staff is related to the notes on the piano.
This first video will walk you through where to download the printout that you will be working with, and give you an overview of the first half of the printout.
Use this link to find your printout – hint: it’s under the bonus link:
This next video continues with the printout where the last one ends. The end of this video might be a little bit confusing, so I made a third video that takes you to the piano to clarify what is on the printout. So, don’t worry if the last part of video #2 is confusing because I will take you step by step in video #3.
And this video takes you to the piano and clarifies the last part of video #2:
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hi lisa helpful video with good explanation thank you
it’s nice to learn your lesson
i enjoy it
thank you miss Lisa
Thank you so much, Ms. Lisa, for the wonderful help you give to all those trying to learn piano. It’s a great program I hope to be able to continue! May God bless you!
Hi Ms Lisa
jst askg
wat s d possibility for me to play piano well
as i dont hv d real piano but im struggling of tryg to play it on my iphone.
i really love piano but it jst my parents didnt trust me enough tht im able to play so they dont wanna buy it.
can i learn to play piano only on iphone????
*wish u answer
Hi Lisa,
I will be 70yrs. old this coming march, i’ve purchased your course and am already on level 4, taking my time with this level. I goal is to “Master” Moonlight Sonata by this coming summer, wish me luck. I’ll send you a recording of my performance.
I’m very hapy to learn the piano by this method, which is very clear. I used to be taught in my teenage year by a dumb old lady, which my dad thought was a good teacher. He kept paying this stupid lady, who wasn’t capable of teaching me the left hand notes on the staff, and so I kept mistaking the tunes, and I got frustrated and left the lessons.. She had her 90 year old mother that chose to walk off her home everytime I did lessons..
thanks Lisa your program is really helpful now i look at the piano and can find all the C’s and the middle C and the middle C position. your great at exsplaning things you Email me and i can Email you if i need help. now thats what i call a teacher!!!
Hi Lisa, I must confess your way of teaching has been wonderful and effective, and my daughter and I are progressing gradually. Thanks for making it so simple. My question is just as in typing, do we have particular fingers assigned to particular notes? Thanks for your response.
thanks so much i love your messages keep up thumbs up!!!
I always wished to play piano.These lessons are very much helpful.Thanks alot LISA.
my computer is old and unreliable for downloads. do you have these instructions in book form? b troutman
Hey Lisa, I’m a 50 year old woman who has never touched a piano in her life. I just inherited a piano so I figured, what the heck? So I am on Lesson One, and I will keep you updated on my progress. Thanks so much for doing this for people. I am in a remote rural area and would never be able to get a piano teacher to come out here, or to even find a teacher anywhere close by to drive to. Bless you.
Lisa
We have a Baby Grand that came with the house we just bought. No one knows how to play piano in our family. So I decided to take lessons from the ground up. I am 64 years old but determined like you say to bring joy of playing to myself and also to others if I get better. Your lessons are a welcome addition to my repetoire of learning and thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Dave
Hello Lisa; Thanks for the online piano lessons. It my first time doing music and i have to say you style of teaching is great! It gives me a clear understanding of how to read music and play music.
Thank you!!
Hey Lisa, I can say first hand that if you want to learn piano that there is no better program, the way you teach is simple and the technique you use is the best that i have seen. It’s like a teacher to student one on one it can’t get any better thanks.
Good evening Lisa , I would like to thank you for the first lesson , and would like to continue with more .
Found the the imformation clearly.I am more of a on hands pratical person then reading but going to try . I have tried many other free piano lessons but found them hard to understand.
So thank you and keep them coming.
Heather
tq very much lisa 4ur lessons.god bless:)
When I started playing piano, I search for some materials in library and on net until I came to your page and videos. I owe my practical love for music to you and my wife who encourages me to keep pressing ahead. Thank you Lisa!
Miss Lisa, your tutorials are excellent, plain and simple. You’re truly the best teacher I’ve ever seen. keep the good work and I hope to see more of your lessons.
Thank you! So happy to hear you enjoy them. Happy Learning.
Ms. Lisa,
Thank you much for your time to teach us and give us a free lesson. I really appreciate it. May God bless you and your entire family. i made an organizer where i could keep all your emails so i won’t miss any of your lesson. just keep on sending your free lessons please.
Your lessons are very interesting. Thanks for your patience!Once more:Thank you, for your free lessons!
From Albania:Andrea
Thank you very much lisa.
Thanks for all your help! This website helped me read music and learn how to use a piano in the proper way! At first, I had a keyboard but I didn’t know how to use it, but now I can do all advanced stuff and I can learn by ear, too! I have to give my gratitude for you since you’re the one who taught me these things through your online classes. Also, I hope you put up more music scores!
Thanks a LOT!!
Hi Lisa,
I am living proof you can teach an old dog new tricks. I am progressing with the free lessons and loving it. Thanks for your clear teaching.
Bob
thank u Lisa madam.
thanks for ur way of teaching. I was searching for online piano teaching for past one year, at last i found you. I don’t know even the basics also. But now i learned to play some small songs through ur lessons. I want to become a professional pionist, i need ur help. Thank u sooooo much.
SRINIVAS
HI LISA Thank you to teaching me the piano lessons.
Hi Lisa!
Your style of teaching is great! It gives me a clear understanding of how to read
music. I’m excited to learn more of it. Thanks a lot. God bless!
Love it! Jus tso grateful, for your help! Edna Patterson
Thank-you!
Hi Lisa
How r u. I hope u will be fine. I’m gratefull to u for ur devotion for teaching music. I’m getting knowledge with ur teaching.
hi Lisa thanks much i’v always wanted to take lessons and i’m just so grateful for this keep up the good job god bless
thank you teacher lisa…..thank you very much……
Thank you very much Lisa..Even I am Indonesian, I can understand clearly. You are good teacher….. The best..
Thank you,thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you
Lisa.
I`m so grateful for your help, Lisa!
Thank-you, for your free lessons!
With tremors, I`m slow, but determined, to learn!
Edna Patterson
Thanks Liza for your lessons. God bless you and your family
Thank you, I have better picture of reading the notes.
Thank you alot lisa, that has helped me alot. your courses have really helped me play the piano and get to my dreams, thank you again
Excellent reinforcement of my understanding of reading notes and their location on the staff and on the piano.
Thank you.
Theresa
Thanks..
THANK YOU
Nakis
Lisa,
This is a very instructive video series. I think I like this format since we can go down to each of the videos without moving out of the page. The videos are quite intuitive. keep it up.
Raymond
Hi Lisa
Thank you for this lesson. Could you tell me what’s rule for the finger’s motion? For example whith right hand : If i put thumb in C and play up from C to G, which finger move to A?
Hello!! Thanks for your patience! Link is fixed now!
~Lisa
Same here. It went to a page called host gator and said site not found. sorry. thanks for trying though
Hi,
This is your teacher Lisa. I really apologize that the link is not working. Thank you for all your updates.
I am working on correcting this. As soon as it is fixed I will update you all here. Thanks for your patience!
~Smile and Practice~
Lisa
PAGE NOT FOUND
Link never existed.
There is a typo in the link. When you get to the “404 gator page” remove the second L of htmll at the end of the url in the address bar and then enter or just copy and paste
http://www.learnpianoonline.com/free-piano-lessons-5/free-piano-lesson-1.html
into the address bar of your browser. Then just follow the lessons
Same thing here
cannot download home page.
Sorry, no connection!!!
nothing there
same here. went to the Free Piano Lesson Page link but it’s a error page.
Gator will not let us in
Ditto
It went to a page called host gator and said site not found. sorry. thanks for trying though.
Thank you