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# Piano

You do not need a five-year plan. You need one honest beginning and enough curiosity to return tomorrow.

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Start small enough that beginning feels almost obvious.

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From curious to doing

## Your piano roadmap

A concrete path from today to three months in. Check off as you go — progress saves on this device.

4 steps

- Mark "Find Middle C and play a scale" as done

Today  Step 1

Find Middle C and play a scale

Spend 15 min on Synthesia or any piano app. No theory yet — just feel the keys.

- Mark "Play a simple melody hands-separately" as done

This week  Step 2

Play a simple melody hands-separately

Learn 'Ode to Joy' or 'Twinkle Twinkle'. 20 min/day for a week.

- Mark "Coordinate both hands on one piece" as done

This month  Step 3

Coordinate both hands on one piece

Pick a beginner piece (Pianote's first track). Practice slowly with a metronome.

- Mark "Sight-read at beginner level" as done

3 months  Step 4

Sight-read at beginner level

Work through the first 30 pages of Alfred's Adult Piano Book 1.

What are you noticing? What worked, what didn't, what to try next…

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Notes and check-offs stay on this device until you save a timeline.

## Tools & resources for Piano

[Synthesia Learn piano with falling notes visualization ↗](https://synthesiagame.com/)  [Pianote Online piano lessons for all levels ↗](https://www.pianote.com/)

## Who else picked this up

- [🎻 Albert Einstein](https://significanthobbies.com/journeys/albert-einstein)   — peak career (princeton years), as “Piano improvisation”

- [🎤 Lady Gaga](https://significanthobbies.com/journeys/lady-gaga)   — childhood, as “Piano (self-taught by ear at age 4)”

- [🎾 Roger Federer](https://significanthobbies.com/journeys/roger-federer)   — teens

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