Music has since long been a part of society. The piano, with its ability to produce a surprisingly large number of tones and tunes, stands out form other instruments. For the many people looking to learn the piano, we have compiled a list of the most popular online learning courses.

Zebrakeys.com; Piano Lessons

With more than fifty lessons to choose from, Zebra Keys has something for users of every level, advanced everyday pianists or simply day-one starters. Using flash software for animated presentations of the courses, users pick up on the lesson quite fast and develop interest in learning further as well.

Freepianolessions4kids.com; Piano Courses

This website has courses for beginners as well as teachers who want to learn some new ideas for playing. You learn playing techniques, how to perform rhythms, how to compose music and much more. The list goes on and on covering every topic imaginable for making you an above average pianist. The courses are in video format and can be downloaded using browser-video catching software.

Andrew Furmanczyk’s “How to play the piano” courses

Andrew Furmanczyk, a piano teacher by profession itself, runs his own website on piano lessons and pretty much everything related to pianos; be it what styles to adopt, what postures to maintain, what piano to buy, which performers to follow and so on. His message to readers is that he’s here to help them with piano playing in a realistic way rather than adopting the ‘learn a piano in a day’ approach. Apart from courses, the website also contains forums and discussion boards so you can get in touch with other pianists and post any questions or quires you may have.

Piano Nanny.com; Free online piano courses

The list of courses offered on this site have been carefully categorized for starters, intermediates and moving onto the advanced players. This website is run and maintained by Clinton S. Clark, a renown musician with around 40 years of experience in his field. The courses cover all the topics you’ll be needing to know about for the next few years, and should you be an ardent pianist, these courses will work for you all the same.

Go piano.com, Learning rhythmic patterns

This site combines simple tutorials with quizzes and tests to reap more rewards from your efforts. Completing a course followed by a test ensures you retain what you’ve learnt.

Music Theory.net; Exercises on remembering keys

This website has broken down the many aspects of music and presented them individually. You learn about note identification, key signature identification, chords, decibels and much more. However it also has exercises you can use to help get familiar with the keys on a piano.

Berklee Shares College of ; Courses on the Keyboard(Piano)

This website takes a rather practical approach to music and rather than just giving technical courses on playing the piano, there’s also a course on preparing before a concert, or should it be just a couple of your friends, preparing notes and much more.

Plern Piano.com; Online piano teacher and composer

This website has a built-in piano with features like running notes on compositions from different users on the website. You can learn quite a bit about what sound a note makes and its placement and so on.

Learn piano online.com; Blog dedicated to piano learning

This blog contains courses on piano learning as well as a paid membership in which you basically get a hard copy of stuff which is otherwise available online for free. You signup and the courses are emailed to you. These include free songs with video tutorials on how to exactly play them. Then there are finger exercises for getting your stance right with the piano for an optimum experience. Lastly there are reminders which keep you from making commonly repeated mistakes. A complete package.

Making music fun.net; E-book on Piano for Beginners

This e-book contains all the basics and even some sample notes for playing on the piano. Worksheets added help the learner become more familiar with the different keys on the piano. You can download the e-book by clicking on the title cover picture directly. Note that you’ll be needing Adobe Reader to view the file, this program can also be downloaded from the same website, the link button is provided below.

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