How-to's

You can train your fingers in many ways. Here you see a hand moving 1 key at a time.

It can be fun to play along with the clip, but it’s often quite difficult. A lot of music goes faster than you might think. And, sometimes it sounds really out of tune when you try to play along with the clip. This has a reason.

It’s almost impossible to play a song correct the first time you see the score. It's best to start by trying different parts of the song. You must first understand the meaning of the notes before you can really play a song.

Sometimes a note doesn’t fit on the staff, for example the middle C. We then use one or more ledger lines. Ledger lines are actually very short extensions of the staff with a 6th or even 7th line.

Here’s an overview of all the white keys in the treble clef. There are quite a few!

Sometimes you need a black key in a melody. You can recognize black keys by a special symbol in front of the note. You’ll see a ♯ or a ♭ in front of the note.

In musical language, this symbol ♯ is called a sharp. It may look like a hashtag, but it’s slightly different.

Here you see all black keys from the 1-striped octave (the low octave). There's a sharp in front of every note and a sharp after the name of the original white key, just as with the F.

You’ve learned about the octave before. But the word has yet another meaning. An octave is also the distance from a key to the next key with the same name.