Abstract: A method of teaching music and the charts to do so are provided. The method includes the steps of: teaching the student that "every other finger plays every other key"; showing the student the hand placement on the keyboard that will correspond to a given set of indicia; providing a series of charts using the indicia that progressively allow the student to play chords with either hand, a melody with the right hand while playing a chord with the left hand, a multi-key melody with the right hand while playing a chord with the left hand; and finally instructing the student how the sheet music corresponds to the indicia in the charts so that the student can play sheet music.