Home Light

Written for the Method by Musalea

Key: C major
Style: Studies
Level: Foundation
Roughly: RCM Prep A–B · ABRSM Initial · Trinity Initial
Lesson: F.1 Find middle C
Musicianship: F.1 Middle C
Focus: Find middle C with finger 1 and keep a steady four-beat pulse.

What its lesson teaches

F.1 Find middle C

Find middle C on the keyboard map, then on the grand staff, where it sits on its own short ledger line between the two staves. Play Home Light with the thumb on middle C and keep a steady four-beat count.

Ideas: The keyboard map
Finger numbers and fingering
Posture and set-up
The grand staff and clefs
Ledger lines
Theory cards: Sitting at the piano
The keyboard map
Finger numbers
The grand staff
Technique: C major five-finger pattern, hands separately

Edition and licence

Musalea

The other lesson pieces of Foundation

Vorschule im Klavierspiel, Op. 101 No. 10 — Kinderlied (Child’s Song), Ferdinand Beyer
Study in C major, Op. 190 No. 1, Louis Köhler
Aller Anfang ist schwer (Every Beginning Is Difficult), Handstücke I No. 1, Daniel Gottlob Türk
The First Lessons, Op. 117 No. 3, Cornelius Gurlitt
The First Lessons, Op. 117 No. 4, Cornelius Gurlitt
Raindrops and Ribbons, written for the Method
Study in C major, Op. 190 No. 2, Louis Köhler
Vorschule im Klavierspiel, Op. 101 No. 11 — Der Kuckuck (The Cuckoo), Ferdinand Beyer
The First Lessons, Op. 117 No. 1, Cornelius Gurlitt
A Second Voice, written for the Method
Three Steps, written for the Method
Long Shadows, written for the Method

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