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For guitarists learning piano

You already know piano. Nobody told you.

Every chord you play on guitar is the same three notes on a piano — you just haven't seen where they sit. Try the free translator below, then decide whether you want the rest.

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Pick a chord you already know.

What you know

open E shape
Guitar chord diagram

Same notes, new instrument

E · G♯ · B
Piano keyboard diagram

Why this works

Piano is a shorter list than you think.

Almost everything a piano course teaches in its first year, you already know — you learned it on guitar. What's actually left is a short, specific list. Here it is for guitar to piano, and for a few other jumps while we're at it.

Guitar → Bass

You keep

  • Every note position — it's your top four strings
  • Chords, keys, and progressions
  • Your sense of time

You learn

  • Fingers instead of a pick
  • Playing one note where you'd play six
Guitar → Ukulele

You keep

  • Your strumming hand, unchanged
  • Chord shapes — they just get new names
  • Everything you know about progressions

You learn

  • Shapes shift up a fourth
  • The 4th string is higher than the 3rd
Guitar → Piano

You keep

  • Note names and intervals
  • How chords are built — 1-3-5 is still 1-3-5
  • Rhythm and phrasing

You learn

  • Where the notes physically live
  • Reading the bass clef
  • Two hands doing different things
Piano → Guitar

You keep

  • Both clefs — guitar only needs one
  • All your theory and harmony
  • Reading ahead while you play

You learn

  • The same note in five places
  • Callouses and fretting strength
  • Barre chords
Piano → Saxophone

You keep

  • Sight-reading
  • Phrasing and dynamics
  • Everything you know about keys

You learn

  • Breath and embouchure
  • One note at a time, forever
  • Written C sounds like E♭

Your learning map

What's actually left to learn.

Guitar to piano is the path we'd build first. Everything your guitar years already cover is crossed off — what remains is the real work, and it's shorter than a beginner course would have you believe.

I play
I want to learn
Guitar Piano
Concept preview
Already yours
How many of these skills you already have 3/6
Levels skipped 7 already covered by what you play
Levels to go 5 the part that's genuinely new
Hardest part Two hands at once where most of your time goes
Where the notes live Level 3 · ends with Heart and Soul

A sketch of what we'd build — not a working product yet.

Six levels here, but you choose how many — a two-week sprint to campfire chords or a year to fluency. Change the goal and the map redraws: different levels, different songs, same rule that nothing you already know appears twice.

What we want to build

The course this tool is a piece of.

The translator does one thing well. The course would do the rest — three ideas, all the same idea: you are not a beginner, so stop being taught like one.

It skips what you already know

A short placement check maps the theory you already have. Intervals, chord construction, reading rhythm — if you know it, it never appears as a lesson. Nothing else does this.

One map, built for your two instruments

Not a generic beginner course. Guitar to piano is a different list than piano to sax, and you see the whole path before you start.

Everything is taught as a translation

Every new chord, scale and shape is introduced as something you already play — just somewhere else. You're never learning from zero.