Nobody gave you the map. The piano isn't eighty-eight things to memorise. It's one small
pattern, repeated all the way up. Learn the pattern and the whole instrument opens in about ten minutes.
Two blacks, three blacks, forever
Look at the black keys. They come in a group of two, then a group of three, then two, then three, all the way
to the end. That repeating shape is your map. Tap the buttons to see it, then tap any key to hear it.
On a phone, swipe the keyboard sideways to see the pattern repeat.
Tap a key.
Now find it yourself
Six things to find. No timer, no score to beat. Use the keyboard above, it stays live.
Ready when you are.
Press start and the first one appears.
Your five keys
Rest your right thumb on middle C and let the next four fingers fall on the next four white keys. C D E F G.
That is your whole world for now. Nothing above it, nothing below it. Tap a card to hear the note, or play all
five.
Then go back to the falling keys
The video isn't a treadmill you have to keep up with. It's a map you're allowed to stop and read. Three changes
make it a completely different experience.
First
Pause it
Stop the video before a single note falls. Look at where the first bar lands. Find that key with your
finger while nothing is moving.
Then
Halve the speed
Set playback to 0.5x. It will feel absurdly slow. That slowness is the lesson, not a shortcut around it.
Then
One bar, not one song
Play the first bar, rewind, play it again. Add the second bar only when the first needs no thinking.
Keep this next to the piano
Print it, or screenshot it. Everything you need for the first week is on this card.
The keyboard, in five lines
The patternBlack keys run in groups of two, then three, then two, then three. Nothing else changes
along the whole keyboard.
Any CThe white key immediately left of a group of two black keys is always a C.
Middle CThe C nearest the centre of your keyboard. Right thumb lives here.
Your fiveC D E F G, under fingers 1 to 5. Thumb is 1, little finger is 5.
The videoPause it. Half speed. One bar at a time. Eyes on your hands, not the screen.