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Comprehensive Piano Learning Guide

Most piano resources are useful on their own. The hard part is knowing what to do next. This guide turns the original sight-reading chart into one practical path from beginner reading to intermediate playing.

Pick one main course. Work through one section at a time. Use the videos for explanation and the PlaySheet pieces for actual practice.

Sight-reading

Read something new most days. Scan the key, meter, rhythm, and starting positions first. Then keep the pulse and recover from mistakes. Falling-note videos are useful as demos, but notation should remain the main reading system.

Ear training

Start with higher or lower, short copied melodies, and major versus minor. Then add intervals, bass lines, chord progressions, and short transcriptions. Hear it, sing it, find it, check it.