Free Piano Lesson Video #3: Understanding Sharps and Flats
Continuing on from Video 2, this video shows:
1) Easy way to understand what sharps and flat are. Example: The notes C# (C-sharp) and Db (D-flat) are the same note. (It’s the black note between C and D)
2) Why, for the purposes of how I’ll be continuing to show you how to play piano it really doesn’t matter much anyway!
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Please sir, I am still very confused but by the way👍 for the last two videos. How do we identify sharps and flats with their keys like in the video DGBAE and CDFGA where all on the black notes, how are we going to know which one is a flat and which a sharp
In a Major/minor scale you can’t have the same note twice, meaning you can’t have a G and also a Gb, so if the scale has a G note in it, you could tell the black note to it’s left is F#.
In other words, a D-Major scale is:
D E F# G A B C# D
There IS no F or C, only F# and C#. However there IS a G and D, so the black notes can’t be Gb and Db because those notes are already used in the scale.
Ahm there’s this thing that confused me, I don’t know if it’s important but I really want to know. So when you changed Dm (D-F-A) to D Major, you have to sharp the 3rd note which is F and became like this (D-F#-A) but then you call it as D# in which I think it’s because the first note is D? But then when you turned C Major (C-E-G) into Cm, you did flat the 3rd note which is E and became like this (C-Eb-G) but you called it E Flat and not the 1st note like in sharp? Can it also be called C Flat since the 1st note is C? or no? Are they different?
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Changing Dm (D-F-A) to D Major by sharping the 3rd note F to F#, by sharping the 3rd note it becomes D-Major instead of D-minor. Did I accidentally call the F# note “D#”? If so I misspoke. I’m in an airport so I’m not able to watch it right now. If you think I made a mistake by saying something wrong let me know.
Your second question, taking C Major (C-E-G) and making it minor by flatting the 3rd (E) to Eb, the flatted note is called Eb, the chord is called C-minor.
Very helpful, thanks. 🙂
Great to hear.
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On 00:51 you say D# but it should be F#
Yeah? I’ll take your word for it and it doesn’t surprise me, heh, I’m at an airport lounge without headphones but I can see the video of me playing a D-Major chord D-F#-A, so it’s a D chord with an F# in the 3rd, and I’ve caught myself multiple times reviewing videos where I’m playing one chord/note while saying (incorrectly) that I’m playing something else. For the record, it’s NOT because I don’t know what I’m playing, I’ve just got a lot going on while recording video of me playing while talking about what I’m playing and thinking ahead of what I’m going to say next. 🙂
Thanks for catching that.
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