Piano Note Names

So, you just started learning to play the piano and you'd like to learn how to read piano music notes? Great that you arrived to this point in our beginning piano lessons.

In this piano lesson we will be using the names of the piano keys which we've learned about during the previous piano lesson.

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How to Find Piano Notes on the Staff

We use the staff in order to tell the name of a note. Here it is. Look at it. The staff has five lines and four spaces.

We can write piano notes on the lines and between the lines. That's how we can tell the piano note names.

Since the piano has such a wide range of notes we need to use different clefs on the staff in order to define which area of the piano we're going to be playing with.

As you can see the G note is located on the second line. If we go one step lower toward the first line we will get the F note which is located between the first and the second line.
If we continue going like that we can actually name all the other notes.

Look at the C note. This note indicates that middle C should be played. Basically we're out of lines so what we need to do is add an extra line under the five lines of the staff.

So here are the notes in an ascending order, starting from middle C to G.

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Here's an easy way to locate the notes quickly.
The piano notes between the lines make the word "FACE".
The letters that belong to the notes which are located on the lines create the initials for: "Every Good Boy Deservers Fudge".

O.k., so now we know how to read notes on the treble clef. By now we can already choose some nice repertoire that will inspire us.

You can start playing your first little pieces with the ones I offer here for free. Enjoy and let me know if you have some problems!

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Before I'll teach you to read notes in the lower register I'd like to show you how to draw the treble clef in the next piano lesson.

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