I’ve bought a keyboard (yamaha reface cp) and am thrilled with how much of the chord theory stuff is clicking into place for me with all the notes laid out as they are on a keyboard…
I’m looking to learn just rhythm piano / keyboard so that some of the easy 4 chord songs I do on guitar I can also play on piano.
Have found a few useful videos on youtube, interested to hear if others have resources they want to share in this area
Tony, I recommend what I used in a university adult piano class a few years back:
(I copied this from the Amazon title).
You can get a spiral bound hard copy or do like me and get the Kindle version that displays on my IPad Pro in standard 8.5 inch by 11 inch format (not formatted for kindle). You can find YouTube lessons for every song in the book. I like it because it teaches playing by chords with one hand and melody line with the other. Sometimes you switch hands. It also covers theory as you advance and there are two additional books available. This book covers chords in the keys of C and G and also F.
Thanks Steve, the “Piano from scratch” guy also recommends that book. Have a super day
The one thing that I appreciate on the piano is that the F chord is easy to play 
In the book they teach the F/C triad for the F , so to play the F chord you just start with the C E G notes of the C chord played with the pinkie, middle finger and thumb of the left hand, leave the finger on the C note and just move the other 2 fingers up one white key to the F and A notes.
Haha! You mean I learned that freaking difficult barre chord the hard way when it could have been ever so easy!!! Darn
I took a piano class back in undergrad. Got all the way to playing chords with one hand and melody with the other by the end of the term. I did reasonably well in that class and I think I even still have the spiral bound book we used buried somewhere.
I’ve been thinking on and off about getting a keyboard lately. I wonder how much of what I learned back then I could pick back up.
Hey Tony,
Ive recently done similar Tony; acquired a Casio 61 key, and plan on learning some basics over the next year or so. Should be fun.
Im starting to investigate some semi-formal learning pathways myself, so that book mentioned here seems like one good way forward.
On a side note, there are some good, casual videos on YT by Levi Clay ( not sure if you know him, but he’s a well known professional transcriber, and 20+'year guitarist; good guy),. He gives some tips and basic stuff, insight etc on the guitarist > keyboardist transition.
Cheers, Shane
Thanks Shane, exactly the sort of resources I was hoping to find out about.