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Free Groups of Black Keys Worksheets for Beginner Piano

Published August 13, 2026

Groups of Black Keys: trace, count, circle. Two worksheets fanned out, each showing a large number to trace, a bee on a honeycomb, and a close-up of the black keys. Click to download the free PDF

First piano lesson: keyboard geography!

Learn the groups of 2 and 3 black keys with these fun worksheets. Students trace the number, count the keys in the group, and then circle every group they can find along a full keyboard.

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Two worksheets (groups of 2 and groups of 3) in both versions.

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  • 6 pages
  • US Letter, landscape
  • 4 MB
  • The printer-friendly groups of 2 worksheet: black line art on white, with a number 2 to trace, a honeycomb, a close-up of two black keys, and a full keyboard along the bottom.
    Printer-friendly Pages that students can write, trace, and color on.
  • The colorful groups of 2 worksheet: the same layout over the Bees Keys meadow and blue sky background.
    Colorful Print once, laminate, and use over and over with a dry-erase marker.

Great for using during a lesson and for sending home as homework.

Then play it on Bees Keys! 🐝

The First Lesson tutorial starts on the very same thing: the groups of 2 and 3 black keys. Your student can play that step over and over as focused practice, until the pattern is automatic. Then move on.

Worksheet, then piano, then app. Practicing all three solidifies your student's understanding of the keyboard pattern.

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Bees Keys

Name the keys

A bee flies across the screen carrying a note name. Tap the matching key before it escapes: the same keyboard geography these worksheets introduce, as a game. Free, with no ads.

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