This is not a beginner’s primer. It is written for you specifically: a competent musician — a trumpet player who reads treble clef well, knows note values, time signatures, keys, and intervals — who is crossing over to a new instrument. Almost every generic piano course on earth will waste the first month of your life teaching you what a quarter note is. This one starts where you actually are.

Read Part 0 in full before touching the keyboard. It tells you how to learn, which matters more than what you learn. After that, the book is split into skill chapters (Parts 1–8) and a curriculum (Part 9) that schedules those skills into your themed days. The skill chapters are reference material — you won’t read them front to back in one sitting. The curriculum tells you which slice of which chapter to work on, and when.

Think of it like this: Parts 1–8 are the textbook; Part 9 is the syllabus; Part 10 is the appendix you’ll keep flipping back to.