Keyboard & piano guides

Piano and keyboard reward what you set up in the first week more than almost any other instrument: finger numbering, hand shape and how you sit at the instrument. Almost every plateau a teacher sees later traces back to something set badly at the very start, so this cluster starts there rather than with repertoire.

None of it is difficult on its own — a curved, relaxed hand, forearms level with the keys, thumbs numbered 1 on both hands — but it is easy to get wrong without anyone watching, and harder to correct the longer it goes unnoticed.

When you want someone checking your hand shape before a habit sets in, keyboard and piano lessons at Trill Route run in Indiranagar, Bangalore and online.

Start with these

• Finger Numbers, Hand Shape and Posture: Your First Week at the Keyboard — set your hand shape, bench height and finger numbers right before a habit sets in the wrong way.

Related guides

The habits from week one are worth protecting with a repeatable session — see practice habits. Once you are playing pieces you want to keep, recording and production covers what a home setup needs.