Piano guides
Practical, honest articles about learning piano with a digital piano and a phone: connecting your instrument, practising efficiently and understanding public-domain music. Just starting out? The beginner lessons take you from your first note to your first real pieces.
- How to connect a digital piano to your Android phone (Bluetooth MIDI and USB)Step-by-step: connect a digital piano to an Android phone over Bluetooth MIDI or a USB OTG cable, why you shouldn't pair it in Bluetooth settings, and fixes when it won't show up.
- Learning piano with a MIDI keyboard: Wait mode explainedHow Wait mode works, why learning notes before rhythm is efficient, and how to move from Wait mode to play-along at 50, 75 and 100% speed with per-bar scoring.
- The best easy classical piano pieces for beginnersA hand-picked list of easy classical piano pieces for beginners, from Bach's Minuet in G to Satie's Gymnopédie, with why each one is worth learning and a play-along preview to try.
- How to practise a new piano piece (a method that works)A step-by-step method for learning a new piano piece: listen first, split it into sections, hands separately, slow practice, loop the hard bars, and raise the tempo in steps.
- Free, legal piano MIDI files: what public domain means for sheet musicWhen is piano music in the public domain, why an arrangement or a MIDI file can have its own copyright, what CC0, CC BY and CC BY-SA allow, and where to find free, legal piano MIDI.