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Game A - Up or Down?
Looking for a good activity for kids?
Kids play fun, familiar songs right away with our number system.
Give kids a quick and happy start, and confidence at the piano.
Try Piano By Number!
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Bach's Minuet
| 5 * 1 2 3 4 | 5 * 1 * 1 |
| 6 * 4 5 6 7 | 8 * 1 * 1
On the piano, UP is to your right and DOWN is to the left.
Play the white keys in this order:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Which way did you go? Click on the arrow below to see if you are right!
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Up and down in the musical world are not exactly the same as in the real world!
REFERENCES
Music History
What Killed the Golden Age of the Piano
Carl Tausig Cooks His Cat
I Meet Aaron Copland
George Sand Killed Chopin
Why Brahms Must Have Been Fat
Artur Rubinstein Was A Vampire
Igor Stravinsky Loses His Cool
Vladimir Horowitz Goes To The Racetrack
Beethoven Was No Beauty
The World’s Largest Blue Danube Waltz
Was Mozart Murdered?
Beethoven’s Rage Over A Lost Penny
Franz Schubert, The First Bohemian
Chopin’s Singing Piano Tone
Stravinsky’s Good Luck
Tchaikovsky’s Greatest Fan
Hector Berlioz and the Orchestral Train Wreck
Piano Lessons with Papa Bach
Piano Lessons with Frederic Chopin
The Great Piano Craze of 1910
The American Piano Wars
Why Hugo Wolf Went Insane
Rachmaninoff and the Evolution of Pop Songs
Musical Feuds
Piano In The Past Was Better
The Master’s Hands
Einstein’s Piano
Einstein’s Violin Improvisations In Gypsy Style
A History of Piano and Numbers
