Lesson Book 1 is pre-reading. Concepts taught are: · How to sit at the piano · Correct hand position · High and low · Loud and soft (forte and piano) · Keyboard topography · Bar line and measure · Quarter, half, whole notes and rests · Repeat sign. The first pieces in the book are played on the black keys. Later in the book, C D E for the RH and C B A for the LH (Middle C position) are taught with letter notes (the name of the note is written inside the note head).