How about the black keys? What are their names? Or to be a bit more precise, what notes do they play? Like the white keys, the black keys are named after the first seven letters of the alphabet except for the fact that they can be either sharp or flat. Simply move in alphabetical order to G, A, B, C, D, E and back to F. Now that you’ve found F, it’s easy to label the other white keys. Every key before a set of three black keys on your piano keyboard plays the note F.

C-D-E-F-G-A-B are called naturals because they contain no sharps or flats which we shall learn more about later.į is located before a set of three black keys. You can continue going to C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C, D, E, F, G and so on until you run out of keys. You will notice that we went back to the start of the alphabet. keep going in alphabetical order to F, then G, followed by A. Now that you know where C is located, it’s easy to find the other notes. These are the notes of the entire musical alphabet. These notes are (obviously) A, B, C, D, E, F and G. Piano notes are named after the first seven letters of the alphabet. In sheet music, middle C is the note halfway between the bass clef and the treble clef. Middle C is not exactly in the middle of the keyboard, but it’s the centermost C. The C which is below your chin plays the note, middle C.

How do you find middle C on the 88 key piano? Sit at the center of your piano. Highly Recommended: Click here for the BEST piano/keyboard course I’ve come across online.Īs a beginner, there is an important note that you should know. Every white key that comes immediately before a set of two black keys plays C. There are several C notes on your keyboard. In other words, the key that is to the immediate left of a set of two black keys plays the note, C. What key plays the note, C on your keyboard? C is played with the white key that comes immediately before a set of two black keys. The first note we shall find is the note, C. The same applies to every piano keyboard. It’s a pattern of two black keys followed by three black keys, followed by two black keys, followed by three black keys and so on. Do you see the pattern of the black keys? If you look closely, you will notice that the black keys follow a pattern of twos and threes. Take a look at the unlabeled piano keyboard diagram above. This includes 88-key, 76-key, 61-key, 49-key and other keyboards. I will show you how easy it is to label all the keys of your keyboard, no matter how many it has. You will learn the notes which correspond to the white piano keys as well as the black ones.

In this lesson, we will take a look at piano notes and keys.

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