The layout of a piano keyboard is perhaps the most recognisable pattern in music – a black and white staggered staircase that sits on the front of every piano, organ and synthesizer and – back in the ...

The first thing you’ll want to do is find Middle C. In the centre of the piano you should see three white keys surrounding two black keys. The furthest left of these three keys is Middle C. As a ...

Boogie-woogie is a driving blues piano style that features a rolling, “eight-to-the-bar” rhythm. It’s based on ostinato bass figures in 8/8 time, and mostly uses the 12-bar blues harmonic scheme.