Accidentals?? You’re probably thinking…
No, notes don’t get into accidents, we’ll touch on that soon.
Flats?? You’re also probably wondering.
No, notes don’t get flat like your tires do. You know, come to think about it. Notes do actually get flat.
Let’s talk about that.
Last time we focused on the major scales and sharp key signatures. Now let’s focus our attention to accidentals and flat key signatures.
note: If this is your first time reading this lesson, then I would suggest to start with the very first lesson. Things could get confusing, you need to click here first to understand this lesson.
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Flats
Flat Key Signatures
Accidentals
Okay, what are accidentals.
Accidentals can be two things: Accidentals are can be sharp or flat notes. Or, notes that don’t belong to a particular key. For example the Key of “C” has the notes: CDEFGAB.
If you were play to for example an F# note, this note obviously doesn’t belong to the Key of “C”. Therefore it is an accidental.
Enharmonic
An accidental ( flat or sharp note ) has two names.
A, Bb note is also an A#, play these two notes on your instrument and you’ll realize that they are the same note.
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I hope you’re with me on this music theory journey. It’s not easy at first, but just hang in there and you’ll be Mozart in no time.
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