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Step 1
Assign a number to each of your five fingers. Your thumbs are number one. The next finger is number two, then number three, then number four and your little fingers are number five.
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Step 2
Put your thumbs on the middle C key. This is the white key in the middle of the keyboard on the left side of the two black keys.
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Step 3
Locate the other notes on the white keys of the keyboard. The notes are A, B, C, D, E, F and G. These are the basic and natural notes of the musical alphabet.
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Step 4
Start with your right thumb on the middle C, then play D, then E, then F and finally play G with your pinkie.
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Step 5
Practice finding all the Cs. They are seven notes away from each other on the white keys. Then practice finding the other notes.
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Step 6
Learn the black notes on the piano, which are the sharps and flats. A sharp is the black key one note up from the white key and depicted by the pound sign. A flat is the black key one note down from the white key, depicted with a lowercase "b." The same black key that is a sharp for the note to its left is a flat for the note to its right.
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Step 7
Memorize the musical alphabet, which starts with A and contains twelve notes. They are A, A-sharp (or B-flat), B, C, C-sharp (or D-flat), D, D-sharp (or E-flat), E, F, F-sharp (or G-flat), G, G-sharp (or A-flat). This cycle repeats over again up and down the keyboard.
