Practice saying the music alphabet going higher using the 7 natural notes: ![]() It’s a complicated system but super valuable for musicians. Once you get past the final note going upwards you get to the next A note and it all starts again. What we do is move to another higher or lower group of the same 7 naturals and 5 sharps/flats. Music can go very high or very low and we end up using more than the 12 sounds I’ve just described. If there were 6 naturals and 6 sharps/flats the piano would be an alternating pattern of black and white stripes. Having 7 naturals and 5 sharps/flats makes it so the piano is broken up into sections that the piano player can see and feel. This seems crazy but there is a good reason. The notes between the “natural” letters are called “sharps” or “flats”. There are no notes between B&C, or between E&F. In addition to naturals, there are notes in-between A&B, C&D, D&E, F&G, G&A. ![]() The easiest ones to understand are the first seven letters of the alphabet: A, B, C, D, E, F, & G. The musical alphabet consists of 12 names we give to sounds that happen in most music. The musical alphabet is the starting point for learning how music works. It doesn’t explain every ounce of magic that makes music so awesome but it gives musicians skills to break down music into concepts, inspire creativity, and solve problems. Music theory provides a way to think and talk about how musical sounds interact. ![]() The study of how music works is called music theory.
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