Whole Steps and Half Steps
A half-step is when you move from one note to the note immediately following it.
Archive for May, 2009
The Double Sharp and the Double Flat
In the last article I talked about what it means to add a sharp (#) or a flat (b) to a note name. The sharp means "go up to the very next note," and the flat means "go down to the very next note."
I noted that Fb is the same note as E, and that [...]
The Twelve Notes in Music
There are twelve notes in Western music. We can identify all of them using seven letters and sometimes adding a sharp (#) or flat (b) symbol.
The seven letters are: A B C D E F G
This cycle keeps repeating. Before A comes another G, and after G comes another A. The distance between one note and [...]