Lesson 19: Sharps and Flats – Putting it all together
Category: Lessons, Music Theory
Now that you’ve learned all about sharps and flats, it is time to get the bigger picture. Although sharps and flats can exist in the same piece of music (and often they do), they are like … enemies that can’t live without each other. OK, bad analogy. But you will learn that sharps and flats are similar, but opposite… I’m still not making sense…Let me start over…
I think this picture will explain it best.
So, as you can see, there are keys on the piano that can be referenced by more than one name. The C sharp key is the same as a D flat. A D sharp is the same as an E flat, and so on… Even the white keys can be referenced by more than one name. C can also be called B sharp!
Now, you are probably asking, now why would someone want to use B sharp instead of C – well.. usually they wouldn’t. But there are some special cases where it would make sense to use a B sharp instead of a C. We will discuss those another day, as it is a more advanced topic.
Check out the worksheets section to get more practice with sharps and flats!
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Posted on February 11th, 2009 by sharlene
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