Keyboards for Beginners - Online Courses - Adult Learning

Online Courses, Nottingham

Date	13 January - 24 March 2026
Sessions	Tuesdays: 4:30pm - 5:30pm
No. sessions	10
Venue	Online Courses, Nottingham View venue details View on Google Maps
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 15
Cost	FREE - £40

About this course

This course is for those wishing to gain or improve their piano/keyboard skills. No previous experience necessary. Through guided practice and working through Alfreds Basic Adult Piano Course Book 1 (book 2 for advanced returnees), you will gain skills relating to playing the keyboard and interpreting music notation.

Through attending this course, you will build up or improve your keyboard/piano skills and gain knowledge of Western music notation. We will work through different songs at individual paces – everyone will have the opportunity to play during the session.

What you will need to bring to the course:

Keyboard or piano - if you do not have access to one, they can be hired from Inspire Music at a small fee. Please contact the music loan team on 0115 9773287

Alfreds Basic Adult Piano Course Book 1

Booking your place and fee information

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Greater London
Greater Manchester
Liverpool City Region
Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
Tees Valley
West of England
West Midlands
West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course
Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office
You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014