Lesson #1
Depending on whether you are looking at an digital keyboard, upright piano, or grand piano, there will be a different number of white and black keys. In a 88-key keyboard, there are 52 white keys and 36 black keys, whereas a 36-key keyboard has 15 black keys and 21 white keys. Regardless, it is important to recognize that there are two black keys then a gap with no black key, then 3 black keys, a gap with no black key, and this pattern keeps repeating over and over. The gap between three black keys and two black keys at the centre is called Middle C.
The labelling of the white keys for the piano is C,D,E,F,G,A,B and this repeats (goes back to C,D,E…etc.). One cycle of all the notes is known as an octave.
Kel's Keyboard 