To teach someone how to play the piano well takes a couple of different elements. First, you need to teach them the basics of theory and time and dynamics and notation. The best time to start is at a young age. but you can start whenever you feel an inkling to play. If you’re two or one hundred and two. You can learn how to play the piano. One of the main steps is to have the desire to play, if you don’t have it, then there is basically no point in learning how to play. You won’t be able to do anything with it. It will just be a pointless skill that you have acquired. So, once you have acquired the desire the play, this is how you get started. First, you need to know what notes are. A note is a key on the piano. On the piano there are 12 different notes. They start with A and go to G when you are beginning, You can get clear tape and write the name of the notes on the keys so it can help you get to know the notes faster. Now that you know where the notes are on the piano. You will need to know how the notes show up on sheet music. Sheet music usually consists of five lines and 4 spaces. But, you can also go above or below the lines, adding on lines basically. A note, which for beginners is a round circle with a stem coming out of it, can go onto any of the lines or spaces. If the note falls on the first line, then there is a specific note on the keyboard associated with that line. Also, if it lands on a space, there is a note on the keyboard associated with that note as well. Going up one on the lines or spaces means you jump one white note on the keyboard. In music, there are a couple of different terms that we need to define. The basic unit of music is a quarter note. A quarter note, for our purposes, signifies one beat on the page. The half note gets two beats and also is white in the middle of the black circle. A dotted half note gets 3 beats and looks like a half note with a period next to it. The whole note gets 4 beats