The Grand Staff

Hey! Great to see you here in this part of our piano lessons!

You'll find that learning to play the piano while reading notes both for the right hand and the left isn't that hard if you'll follow the instructions in this piano lesson.

The grand staff is combined of these two staffs. The top staff is for the right hand and the left one is for left hand.
There's an imaginary line which stands for middle C in the middle the staffs.

The staff covers three sets of keys from A-G.

We don't have to study all the notes right now. I simply want to show you how this works in a layout. For now simply concentrate on the learning to read the notes stated with the letters. We will focus on read these notes in the next few piano lessons.

Now, here is a nice realization.
Both clefs are located on the second line in relationship with middle C.
That will help you to read notes faster.
You can always find the G note and the F fast and relate the other notes to these notes.

Now you're basically ready to start and read your favorite piano notes. Here's a nice selection of Easy Piano Sheet Music from ebay.

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In the next free piano pieces I offer here, you can practice reading piano notes on the grand staff.
Here's how to place the C position when we read notes on the grand staff (So we have to play with both hands).

Away in the deep forest	Download	Play
The itsy bitsy spider	Download	Play
Mussete by Bach	Download	Play
Jolly old saint Nicholas	Download	Play
Row, row, row you boat	Download	Play
Bingo	Download	Play

Well done my friend! You've made such a long way and now you're ready to play so many pieces.

In the next lesson I'd like to show you how to play harmonic intervals on the grand staff. We will start playing harmony and learn to play some accompaniment parts.