The first step in learning the piano seems to be memorizing the 12 keys in an octave. Pictured is an octave. It consists of five black keys and seven white keys (A to G, or should I say C to A?). Photo from Barnimages.com

Once the white (and black) keys are memorized, I need to physically practice on the keyboard until the location of each note is programmed into my nervous system and my fingers instinctively know where to go. Brute force memorization at its finest ;) Somewhere down the road, my future self will look back at this most basic exercise and smile at what a complete noob I am now. Hi future self! Hope you lost that 20 lbs. You married yet? Sorry. Back to the present moment. Time to focus on memorizing these seven white keys! Here are two videos I found to remember the names of the piano keys: https://youtu.be/Y4V0Z6FNv4k https://youtu.be/AqcnR-xEYdc Let me see what I can come up with...