For your enjoyment and enlightenment, here's a sampler of images and videos that you will find on our Free Key Maps for the Piano site - which is also dedicated to making the keyboard easier to learn and play. That site presents our vertically oriented "key map notation." Link to that site: (be aware that clicking on this link will take you FROM the present site - to the Key Maps site.) kmaps.com
Clicking on the IMAGES below will enlarge them to full screen.
Clicking on the VIDEOS will start them.
Double-clicking on the VIDEOS will enlarge them to full screen.
For more a more detailed explanation about how key maps work, you can go to kmaps.com by clicking the link to that site at the beginning of this page. | Notes for the black keys are on the vertical lines. Notes for the white keys are in the spaces between the lines, just as the white keys are between the black keys on the keyboard. You can click on the image to enlarge it. |