We’ve already talked about the fact that having black and white keys on a piano makes it easier to find sharps and flats and to understand scales and key signatures. You can hear a lot of chromatic scale tones in this famous piece, Flight of the Bumblebee. There’s a special scale called the chromatic scale, which is what you get if you play every single key on the piano. Even professional concert pianists practice their scales – it’s that important! Playing piano scales helps you understand how the black and white keys work together to create all the scales in modern western music. That’s why it’s a good idea to practice your scales A LOT. Remembering which piano keys to play can be tricky.
Well, maybe “simply” isn’t the right way to put it. But if you’re playing a song in the key of D flat, that same black note will replace G in the scale, and since it is one step to the left of G, we’ll call it G flat.īlack keys on piano allow musicians to play music in any key by simply remembering which black key to play instead of which white key. In the key of G, the black note replaces F in the scale and is one step to the right of F, so we call it F sharp. How do you know which name to use? That will depend on where the black key fits in the musical scale you’re playing. Notice that F sharp can also be called G flat, because it is the first black note to the left of G.
If you want to play a song in the key of G, you’d use F sharp instead of F. For example the black key just to the right of F is called F sharp. How do sharps and flats work on a piano keyboard? Take any white key and the first key to the right is that note sharped, while the first key to the left is that note flatted. Sign up for a free account now and receive over 300 video lessons (and counting!) accessible on any smart device.
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