Finger games
Lesson time: (1min 49sec)
Play interactive games to familiarize yourself with finger numbers and basic keyboard geography, developing muscle memory and control.
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This lesson is part of the course Piano Method: First Steps
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Lesson transcript:
Ready for some finger games? Let’s start by understanding the layout of the black keys—they’re grouped in twos and threes across the keyboard. Using this pattern helps us find notes easily. Place your right hand finger on D (between two black keys), and left hand finger on a D below it. Let’s play a quick game calling out finger numbers. This exercise builds familiarity with finger positioning and helps avoid confusion since hands are mirror images. Keep practicing, and you’ll get it!
About the instructor
Talia Girton is a musician and HCPC-registered music therapist, and the founder of The Cycling Music Teachers. Her work brings together music therapy, counselling and education, and she tutors internationally on the music therapy training course at UDELAS in Panama as well as contributing to professional development with the European Piano Teachers Association (EPTA). On MusicGurus she teaches the Piano Method and Piano Foundations courses, guiding complete beginners from first steps through rhythm, both hands, theory and performance. read more