With the progress and advancement of science and technology, the modes of learning and tutoring how to play a piano instrument has experienced some changes. No one has the time in today's fast and busy jet set lifestyle to spend hours searching for a reputed piano teacher and even if you find one easily, the steep charges will make you faint.

After all, who wants to spend $100 on a private lesson that will last for one hour only and a full fledged beginners' course that will set you back thousands of dollars? Of course, it will definitely burn a littler hole inside your pocket if you go for group lessons.

But even then, once free beginners piano lessons on the internet are available at a dime a dozen over the web and which don't compromise on quality to produce quality fare, why should you let these teachers and piano learning schools fleece you? In these free online piano lessons beginners courses, you'll obtain piano instruction on the internet through web cam and you'll have the ability to learn how to play the musical instrument using lessons on online keyboard. The courses will cover starters' playing techniques and patterns, rhythmic patterns, basic notations, tones, scales etc, how to read music from printed score and other such things.

These beginners piano lessons on the web for free are accessible in CD format, DVD format which is very popular, online course form via web cam, and in software form. If it is a software lesson, you shall need to download it from the concerned site and it will take just a few minutes to download and install it on your PC. The process is very easy. Many of the beginners' courses feature 16 lessons, some feature 60 lessons and there are others which feature 223 lessons or skills.

You can take these lessons whenever you find time, you can learn at your own pace and these courses will slowly but surely guide you from step one to the last step until you have acquired a thorough knowledge of the basics. And there are quizzes to test the depth of your knowledge.