The natural sign in music is a little different to the other signs you may have heard of, most specifically the double sharp, double flat, sharp or flat signs. The sharp sign will raise a note by a half step and the flat sign will lower a note by a half step. Double sharps raise … Read more
Western music contains 12 different pitches. These twelve pitches can then be repeated over different octaves. There are seven of these pitches that are ‘natural’ and these are the notes of the musical alphabet! A B C D E F G The remaining 5 pitches are then either sharp notes or flat notes. So let’s … Read more
Western music contains 12 different pitches. These twelve pitches can then be repeated over different octaves. There are seven of these pitches that are ‘natural’ and these are the notes of the musical alphabet! A B C D E F G The remaining 5 pitches are then either sharp notes or flat notes. So let’s … Read more
Beaming in music is such an important concept as you will see examples of beaming all over your sheet music. Beaming notes makes music much easier to read and you will see why throughout this blog post. Beaming can be used on any note that has a shorter length than a quarter note (crotchet). All … Read more
An accidental in music is a sign that is placed on a note to raise or to lower a note by one or two half steps (semitones). An accidental changes the pitch of a note. You must always write the accidental sign in front of the note. This is different to when you write this … Read more