Getting Started 🚦
- Key Names: includes sound
- Grand Staff / Staff, Clefs, & Notes
- Music Notation Vs. Rhythm Notation: how to read notation and rhythms
- The Mayron Cole Piano Method: free piano method series for children and adults
- Fundamentals of Piano Practice: online book covering the basics of how to learn the piano as an adult
- Piano As Your 2nd Instrument: if you already play guitar this will guide you through your transition to piano
Tools 🛠
- Virtual Piano: interactive piano that is shareable
- Metronome / Drum Machine
- Circle of Fifths: key and diatonic chord reference
- Chord finder
- Music Notation: Flat (online editor) / Musescore (app)
Warmups 🖐🏻
- Hanon / Finger Exercises: warmups and patterns
Chords & Scales 🎶
- Scale Fingering: technique and precise fingering for all major scales
Sheet Music & Lead Sheets 🎼
- 8notes: free sheet music for all genres
- Musescore: user-generated sheet music
- Music Notes: online sheet music for purchase
- Sheet Music Plus: online sheet music for purchase
- Ultimate Guitar: chords & lyrics
- Hal Leonard: physical sheet music
Books 📖
- How to Write Great Songs on Keyboard: A Complete Course to Help You Write Better Songs by Rikky Rooksby
- Hammond Organ Complete
- Fundamentals of Music Theory for Piano
- Jazz Piano by Mark Levine
- The Mayron Cole Piano Method
Styles 🎵
Classical
- Classical Sheet Music: tons of free classical sheet music for various instruments
- Take A Piano Sheet Music Break: free and organized by difficulty
- Michael Kravchuk: free classical sheet music
Pop
- Piano Sheet Music for Free: pop songs arranged and notated for piano
Ragtime
- Ragtime Piano: huge collection of popular ragtime piano songs
Jazz
- How Jazz Musicians Practice: article offering practice suggestions for aspiring jazz pianists
- Learn Jazz Piano: many resources for practicing and learning more about jazz
- Jazz Resource Center: jazz theory, chord voicings, and transcriptions
- The Delicate Art of Comping: comping philosophy by Phil Markowitz
Funk
- Funk Piano Lessons: great blog with good practice and technique suggestions
Instrument & Care ❤️
- Keyboard Buying Guide: outlines the various keyboard options
- Avoiding Injury: for hands, wrists, and musician's health