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In this piano lesson you will learn to play Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star without the use of sheet music. After this learn to play piano tutorial you will be able to play the melody with both hands!As you know Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star is a popular nursery rhyme. The melody is from France and the lyrics from an English poem by Jane Taylor.The English lyrics are as follows:Twinkle, twinkle, little starHow I wonder what you areUp above the world so highLike a diamond in the skyTwinkle, twinkle, little starHow I wonder what you areIn this piano lesson we will use a form of tablature instead of sheet music notation.Tablature is a type of musical notation which will tell you where to place your fingers to play a melody on your piano. guitar chords The first thing we will do is to locate the note C.The middle C on a piano is the first white key that is to the left of two black keys. It is called middle C because on the piano keyboard it is right in the middle, near the keyhole.In our piano tab notation the keys are numbered instead. This middle C in our type of piano tab is called 1.This means that when you see the number 1 you are to play the middle C once. The white key to the right of C we call 2, the next 3 and so on.Let’s play some piano tab notes:1 2 3 4 5 6 7Now you have played a scale with the actual notes C D E F G A B.Now we will start to play the melody Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star:Twinkle, twinkle, little star1 1 5 5 6 6 5Now you have played the notes C C G G A A G.