(Music Theory for Beginners)
(Music Playing)
Hi, My name is Sam Dhanasekaran and welcome to this Music Theory Video Series.
In this video let us take a look into naming
the black keys. In the previous video
we saw the names given in the white keys in a Piano. Now
how do we name the black keys? I mean
these keys.
In Piano you may notice that
if we more from left to right
that is
you can notice that the sound gets sharper. Or the pitch of the sound goes higher.
If we go from right to left the sound becomes more and more flat. Or the pitch gets lower.Llike this.
So the Music Theory names the black piano keys by virtue of its location. A black piano key residing above C
right, this is C. A black piano key residing above C is called C Sharp. The Sharp is denoted using the # symbol.
The next one
is D#, because it is located above D.
And so on. Okay? So this would be F#, G#, A#. Ok.
Now
I agree that C# is sharper than C. But
it is also lower than or flatter than D.
This is D. This is flatter than D. So can I call it D Flat? Sure, why not? Call it as D Flat. So the next one is
E Flat and so on.
But how you know that when I am, when I am going to call this as C#
or when I am going to call this as D-Flat. For that let us take a look into
Scales, in the next video. Thank you for watching.
