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← Prev Lesson Next Block → Study Guide Studybass Fundamentals One Block: From The Top The Musical Alphabet interactive online bass lessons Lessons Tools Gear Shop Radilo86 | logout ← Prev Pg. 2/3 Next → The Musical Alphabet p.2 by Andrew Pouska Visualizing the Musical Alphabet on the Piano Keyboard Now that you know the basic music note terms natural, sharp, and flat, let’s look at the musical alphabet on the piano keyboard. Regardless of the instrument you play, many things make more sense and are more easily remembered when visualized on the piano keyboard. White Piano Keys The white keys on the piano are all the natural notes - A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Black Piano Keys In between most of the natural notes (white keys) there is a black key. The black keys are sharps and flats. You will notice that the black keys each have a name with a sharp and a name with a flat. It’s important to understand the same note can have more than one name. Two note names describing the very same note are said to be enharmonic. Later you will learn the rules for when you use the sharp note name or the flat note name. Big Cats Eat Fish Another thing you should notice is there is no note between B and C and no note between E and F. They just skip to the next natural note. This is important to remember. You can remember these two exceptions with a phrase like B ig C ats E at F ish. (There is a reason for these two exceptions, but an explanation would be too complicated for this lesson. You will learn why in later lessons.) The Notes of the Musical Alphabet Starting on the note A on the left of the piano keyboard, follow the notes going up the piano keyboard (moving right). The 12 notes of the musical alphabet are: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 A A♯ or B♭ B C C♯ or D♭ D D♯ or E♭ E F F♯ or G♭ G G♯ or A♭ A (next octave) The order of the 12 notes is always the same. The same cycle of 12 note names just repeats again and again. As I said before, it is the same for all musical instruments. Now that you know how the musical alphabet works, let’s look at how it works on the bass... ← Prev Pg. 2/3 Next → Quiz Tweet 3 Me gusta Tweet Bassist Quotes “ I listen to what I think is the quality of the music and not the technique. Only later will I become aware of the technique of the player. ” — Tony Levin Lingo axe: slang term for one's instrument. More from the StudyBass Dictionary Lesson
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The Musical Alphabet p.2by Andrew Pouska
Visualizing the Musical Alphabet on the PianoKeyboardNow that you know the basic music note terms natural, sharp, and flat,
let’s look at the musical alphabet on the piano keyboard. Regardless of
the instrument you play, many things make more sense and are more
easily remembered when visualized on the piano keyboard.
White Piano KeysThe white keys on the piano are all the natural notes - A, B, C, D, E, F,
and G.
Black Piano KeysIn between most of the natural notes (white keys) there is a black key.
The black keys are sharps and flats.
You will notice that the black keys each have a name with a sharp and a
name with a flat. It’s important to understand the same note can have
more than one name. Two note names describing the very same note are
said to be enharmonic. Later you will learn the rules for when you use
the sharp note name or the flat note name.
Big Cats Eat FishAnother thing you should notice is there is no note between B and C and
no note between E and F. They just skip to the next natural note. This is
important to remember. You can remember these two exceptions with a
phrase like Big Cats Eat Fish. (There is a reason for these two exceptions,
but an explanation would be too complicated for this lesson. You will
learn why in later lessons.)
The Notes of the Musical AlphabetStarting on the note A on the left of the piano keyboard, follow the notes
going up the piano keyboard (moving right). The 12 notes of the musical
alphabet are:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1
A A♯ orB♭ B C C♯ or
D♭ D D♯ orE♭ E F F♯ or
G♭ G G♯ orA♭
A(nextoctave)
The order of the 12 notes is always the same. The same cycle of 12 note
names just repeats again and again. As I said before, it is the same for all
musical instruments.
Now that you know how the musical alphabet works, let’s look at how it
works on the bass...
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slang term for one'sinstrument.
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