Preparing
Chapter 2: Good Posture and Practice Habits
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Build healthy technique from day one — the best posture for your back, arms, and hands, how to warm up, and how to get more from every practice session.
Best Positions for Your Back, Arms, and Hands
Set up relaxed, healthy posture at the keyboard, from a straight back and level forearms to the correct bench height for your hands and wrists.
Getting the Most Out of Your Practice
Turn limited practice time into real progress with productive habits that keep your sessions focused, effective, and even fun.
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Virtual piano
Play a piano in your browser — use your mouse, touch, or computer keyboard. Real piano sound, and a free Pro tab with up to 61 keys, sustain, MIDI keyboard input, a metronome, and recording.
Keyboard ear trainer
Hear a note, then click the matching key on the on-screen piano — with instant feedback, the right key revealed on a miss, and a running score.
Tuning drone
Hold a steady reference pitch on any note, in any octave, at A = 440, 442 or baroque 415, with an optional fifth — tune to it and practice intonation, scales and long tones right in your browser.
Chapter 11: Combining the Left and Right Hands
Put both hands together — share the melody, add single notes and triads in the left hand, and shape your sound with the damper pedal.
Chapter 13: Advanced Playing – Beyond Hand Positions
Break free of fixed hand positions — move freely across the keys, play pop and classical pieces, add arpeggios, and shape music with dynamics and articulation.
Metronome
Set the tempo and time signature and practice in steady time, or open the Pro tab for subdivisions, per-beat accents, a speed trainer, a gap trainer, click sounds, and recording yourself under the click — all free, right in your browser.