Piano Test.

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Lesson 1
How to sit at a piano
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1. Sit up and relaxed. Your feet should be flat on the
Circle the correct word.
2. Your hands should be (relaxed/ tensed) and (curved/straight).
3. Your wrist should be (level with /higher than/lower than) the back
of your hand.
4. Play with the (top/tip/side) of your thumb and the
(tops/tips/sides) of your fingers.
Musical Notes
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1. There are only letters used for notes in music.
2. They are .
3. These notes are known as the musical .
Circle the correct word or cross out the incorrect one.
4. They are the names of the (white/black) keys on the keyboard.
The Piano Keyboard
Circle the correct word or cross out the incorrect one.
The (black/white) keys always appear in groups of two or three. The C note is a (black/white)
key. It is always on the (left/right) hand side of a group of (two/three) black keys. Label the
keyboard below with their correct names.

Name the notes. Tip: The letters
of the notes.
Low notes, Middle C, High notes
Circle the correct word or cross out the incorrect one.
Middle C is the C note in the (left side/ middle/right side) of the piano
keyboard. The notes to the left of Middle C are (low/high) notes; the
notes to the right of Middle C are (low/high) notes.
Fingers
Each finger has its own number. Label the following diagram.

Circle the correct word or cross out the incorrect one.
The thumb of each hand is counted as the (first/fifth) finger and has the
number of (one/five).
How to read music
These five lines are called the staff or
(treble/stave), for plural (meaning
more than one). Music notes are
written in the and on the of the staff.
Treble Clef & Bass Clef
Draw the treble clef. Draw the bass clef.


A staff with a treble clef written on it is called a treble .
A staff with a clef written on it is called a bass .
High notes are written on the (treble/bass) staff, and are
(always/usually) played with your (right/left) hand.
Low notes are written on the (treble/bass) staff, and are
(always/usually) played with your (right/left) hand.
The Grand Staff
Label the following diagram with words from the box.









treble clef bass clef bracket or brace treble staff
bass staff line
Fill in the blanks.
The diagram above was a diagram of a .
Thats what you call a treble staff and bass staff joined together.
They are joined by a , bracket or .

The value of notes
Music notes are written in the and on the of a
staff. A quarter note has a (open/closed) head and a stem. Open
means white and closed means black or coloured in. *Write the name
of each of note (see example) and the amount of beats it goes for.



The note Middle C
Middle C is written just below the staff, on a short line
(called a line).

Quarter note. a beat.
Example
On the diagram below, draw Middle C.

Now draw the following in order: C, A, G, E, F, B, D.
(Draw them on both staves).




The Last Question
(Yes I know; a very weird title but I cant give it one or else itll reveal
some answers). P.S. Youre wasting your time by reading this.
Music is divided into (or measures) by lines called lines.
In this song how many bars of music are there? bars.

The two pairs of numbers after the clefs are called the (key
signature/time signature). This is called the (four three/three four)
time signature. It tells you there are (four/three) beats in each (bar/
song).