The arrangement of longer keys for C major with intervening, shorter keys for the intermediate semitones dates to the 15th century.
The pattern repeats at the interval of an octave. Because these keys receive less wear, they are often made of black colored wood and called the black notes or black keys. The keys for the remaining five notes-which are not part of the C major scale-(i.e., C ♯/D ♭, D ♯/E ♭, F ♯/G ♭, G ♯/A ♭, A ♯/B ♭) (see Sharp and Flat) are raised and shorter. Because these keys were traditionally covered in ivory they are often called the white notes or white keys.
The twelve notes of the Western musical scale are laid out with the lowest note on the left The longer keys (for the seven "natural" notes of the C major scale: C, D, E, F, G, A, B) jut forward. Let’s say you read the note C.Harpsichord with black keys for the C major scale You will see accidentals written in the sheet music right before a note.īy the way: If you just mention a black key without reading any sheet music, it is OK to use any of the two names. These symbols, together with the natural sign (♮), are called accidentals. The name depends on what white key it started from, the one above or the one below.Įasy, just use one of two music symbols the sharp (♯) or the flat (♭). The black keys are named after the white right next to them.
A chromatic scale is made from only half steps or semitones. They fill in the “gap” where there are whole steps, so toīy playing all the keys one after the other, both the white and the black keys, next to each other you can play a chromatic scale. The black keys make it possible to play many more scales and Look at this piano keyboard diagram where the black key groups are circled: By recognizing this repeated pattern, it also makes it easier to find our way on Let's take a look at how the black keys are grouped in two’s and three’s, all over the And there are whole steps from one black key to the next with a white key between. There are also half steps/semitones between a black and the white key next to it or reversed. Those that don’t, E-F and B-C, are smaller and called semitones or half steps. You can also see that all keys have a black key between them except between E - F and B - C.Īll steps (the interval from one key to the next) having a black key between them are called whole steps or tones. But each time they repeat, the music pitch (how high or low the tone is) sounds one octave higher (if you play to the right on the keyboard).Īn octave is the distance, or music interval, from one note or tone to the next with the same name, higher or lower. You can see that the 7 basic notes (A B C D E F G) are repeated over and over.
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