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Little Keys

Let's play the piano!

Eight weeks of tiny lessons. Ten minutes a day. Every note has a colour and every finger has a number.

Start week 1▶ Watch a lessonPrint the stickers

Try the keys

Tap a key, or press the letters on your computer keyboard.

CmiddleCDEFGABCDEFGABC

How to read the notes

  • Colour
    tells you which key.
  • Number
    tells you which finger.
  • Wide block
    means hold it longer.
  • Cred
  • Dorange
  • Eyellow
  • Fgreen
  • Gsky blue
  • Ablue
  • Bpurple

Your eight weeks

Each week has a warm-up, a song, four quests and a video lesson. Collect all the stars!

  1. Week 1Say hello to the keysFind C, count your fingers, play your first song.
  2. Week 2Five fingers, five keysEvery finger gets a key. Your pinky joins the party.
  3. Week 3Your left hand joins inYour left hand is a mirror. Pinky on the left, thumb on the right.
  4. Week 4Smooth like honeyMake your notes touch. Play the happy Ode to Joy.
  5. Week 5Big jumps and your first scaleJingle all the way, and climb a whole octave.
  6. Week 6Hop! Moving your handA left-hand scale, and a song where your whole hand moves.
  7. Week 7A new home: G majorThe same star song, in a brand new place.
  8. Week 8Show time!Nothing new this week. Just play your best songs and be proud.

For grown-ups

This is made for children around 6 to 8 with no piano experience. Each week is about ten minutes a day, five days. You don't need to read music: the colours, finger numbers and on-screen keyboard show the way. Every week page can be printed, and there is a stickers sheet to put colours on real keys.

The audio plays through the browser, so a real piano or keyboard is best, but the on-screen keys work too.