Here are some of the music fundamentals taught in Your Time to Play:

• Introducing the music staff
• Measures and bar lines
• The time signature
• Beginning hand positions
• Rests
• Notes on the treble and bass staves
• Duration to the eighth
• Dotted notes
• Dynamic symbols
• Intervals
• Key signatures
• Musical phrasing
• The diatonic scale
• Building major scales
• Intervals of the major scale
• Meter including compound and irregular times
• Note stem direction
• Leger notes
• The elements of music
• The science of sound
• About the piano
• Sharps, flats and naturals
• Half and whole steps
• Musical terms
• Grace notes
• 1st & 2nd endings, repeat bars
• Triads of the major scale
• The metronome
• Italian terms
• Composition analysis
• Preparing for performance