There are several basic ways to learn piano. The most-used method is to learn how to read music step by step, and gradually move from the middle C position outward in both directions until the entire staff is covered. This is usually accomplished using method books such as Schaum, Thompson, D’Auberge, Bastien, and many others. And of course this is the method taught by the vast majority of piano teachers.

While it is great to know how to read music, it is equally valuable to learn music theory and all it’s sub-divisions. Probably the most helpful of all in learning piano is a knowledge of music chords and how they are formed. This applies not only to piano, of course, but to all instruments, since almost all music uses chords of some type as a tonal background to the melody.

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