National Museum of African American History and Culture Film still of Una Mae Carlisle on the set of “I Like It ‘Cause I Love It” National Museum of African American History and Culture John Coltrane ...

Using your drawing as a template, label what note each key on the keyboard corresponds to. Play to their pattern recognition abilities—you’d be surprised how well five-year-olds can recognize patterns ...

But I absolutely, positively cannot sight-read music, and I definitely can’t play Beethoven sonatas. And I want to—desperately. So I thought I’d take a stab at learning piano for real.