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> Lesson 1 – Get to know the notes on a piano Lesson 2 – Basic scale theory Lesson 3 – Basic chord structures Lesson 4 – Learn to play two songs Lesson 5 – Practice your ear Lesson 6 – Notes and fingering Lesson 7 – Add melody to chords Lesson 8 – Understanding and expanding chords Lesson 9 – Harmonic principles and progressions
The best way to learn is to learn with your left and right brain. Try also to see where the notes are in pictures (e.g. an F is just left of any group of three black notes):

Each descending or ascending note on a piano is a semitone (half tone) higher or lower than the previous note.
A sharp is normally a black note and is a semitone higher than the plain white note (e.g. C#).
A flat is also normally a black note and is a semitone lower than the plain white note (e.g. Db).
On a piano, a C# and a Db is therefore the same note.
Take time to understand this...
Depending on which key you are in, you either use flats or sharps (e.g. you use sharps in the key of D, E, etc. and you use flats in F). To understand this, you need to understand basic scale theory.
Advance to Lesson 2.
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