Beginner Piano Lessons

Enjoy a variety of beginner piano lessons from our roster of professional piano teachers, with topics ranging from the very basics of hand shape and hand positions, to how to learn a new piece hands together.

You can find a detailed list of the lessons below.

Graham Fitch

Pianist, teacher, writer and adjudicator Graham Fitch gives masterclasses and workshops on piano playing internationally. He is also in high demand as a private teacher in London. Graham is a regular tutor at the Summer School for Pianists in Walsall and also a tutor for the Piano Teachers’ Course EPTA (UK). He writes a popular piano blog and has launched an online piano academy.

Above, he gives masterclasses on:

✔ Useful exercises for the weaker fingers

✔ Practising without the pedal

✔ How to play piano chords

✔ Accompanying an orchestra

✔ Learning a new piece hands together

Graham writes regularly for Pianist magazine. Why not try us out for FREE with our sample issue?

Tim Stein

Piano teacher and pianist Tim has held teaching posts at both King’s School, Rochester, Kent and the American School in London. Het set up a private teaching studio in Hampstead Garden Suburb (very close to Golders Green, East Finchley or Muswell Hill) where he is much in demand as a private piano teacher.

Above, he gives lessons on:

✔ Seating and posture

✔ Hand shape and hand position

✔ Piano fingering for beginners

✔ Hand and finger independence

✔ Simple warm-up exercise

✔ Geography of the keyboard

✔ Fingering for scales and arpeggios

✔ Piano tone and sound

✔ How to start practising a piece

✔ Sight-reading

✔ Aural training

✔ Leaps and large intervals

✔ Chord voicing

✔ How to play chords

✔ Strengthening the left hand

✔ Slurs

✔ Rhythm

✔ The thumb

Frances Wilson

Frances Wilson is a regular writer for a number of classical music websites, and runs her own blog site – The Cross-Eyed Pianist. 

Above, she gives a three-part masterclass on:

✔ Practising tips

✔ Technique tips

✔ Artistry, expression and enjoyment

John Maul

John has been a professional musician for over 30 years having graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in London in 1987. In the same year he entered and won the Wavendon Allmusic Student Award.  (The Allmusic concept was the brainchild of Sir John Dankworth and Dame Cleo Laine).

Above, the musician and teacher gives lessons on:

✔ Starting to play the piano

✔ Swing style

✔ Czerny studies

✔ Tango style

✔ Ragtime

✔ Various different repertoire