61 keys · C2 to C7

Piano Tab Trainer

Read piano like you read guitar tabs: a note letter plus an octave number. Paste letter notes from any tutorial, then watch the keys light up and play along at your own speed.

Step one

Finding C

  1. Ignore the white keys and look only at the black keys. They come in groups: 2, then 3, then 2, then 3, all the way along.
  2. Find any group of 2 black keys.
  3. The white key directly to the left of that pair is C. Every pair of black keys has a C just before it.
  4. From C, the white keys go C D E F G A B, then C again.

Step two

Reading a tab

Piano tabs here work like guitar tabs: instead of string and fret, each note is a letter plus an octave number. Everything you need:

C4Note C in octave 4 (middle C). Some keyboard manuals, including Yamaha's, call this C3. F#3 Bb3Black keys: # is the one to the right, b the one to the left -Hold the previous note one more beat .Rest (silence) for one beat C3+E3+G3Play several notes together (a chord) |Bar line, just for reading RH: / LH:Right-hand and left-hand lines