Explore basic music theory and learn piano skills to play simple songs fluently in this free online course. Learn to confidently play songs on the piano in this complete beginner course. Explore the basics of playing the piano, beginning with the keyboard structure - the white keys and accidentals. The lessons will discuss tones, scales, intervals and chords while you practise them on the piano. You will practise all your new skills using two popular songs to be ready to progress to the intermediate lessons by the end of the course. Enrol today!
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 201690 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • Recognise each of the black and white keys on the piano or keyboard • List the twelve music notes • Define a ‘tone’, ‘semitone’ and ‘accidental’ in music • Identify the major scale for any key • Match the tonic-solfas with their corresponding positions on the music number system • Discuss chord inversions in music • Describe how a diminished chord is constructed • Recognise notes and chords played simultaneously in a song |
| Course Code | 4590 |

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