Piano Keys
Learn Piano Keys – The Only Component Of The Piano That You Get To Interact With
Piano keys are the most important component of the piano that musicians familiarize themselves with. The rest of the action happens inside and pianist and keyboardists alike only interact with what is visible to them. In this article, we will provide you lessons regarding how to learn piano keys.
{The White Keys}
The white keys are called the natural keys or the naturals. These are called as such because they give out the nature notes, unlike the slightly higher or lower pitches of the black keys.
There are only seven natural notes, thus there are only 7 natural keys. Each are labeled according to the music alphabet universally used in any musical instruments, the keys A, B, C, D, E, F and G. Note, however, that the music alphabet begins with the letter C as this is the basic key in music. Therefore, as you will observe, the keys of your keyboard or piano runs from letters C to B (C, D, E, F, G, A, and B) whose pattern is repeated immediately after the C.
{The Black Keys}
Look at your keyboard and observe how the keys are positioned. With the exception of keys B and C, and E and F, all white keys are separated by one black key. The black keys, as mentioned previously, correspond to sharp and flat notes which are denoted as # and b, respectively. These are called the accidentals.
The accidentals are the slightly modified notes of the natural notes beside them. According to the layout of any keyboard, there are five accidental keys. Fortunately, all accidentals stand out because of they are the black keys, thus it is very easy to identify them. The tricky part is in the naming of each accidental because these often have 2 different names, one for sharp, another for flat. However any beginning pianist can easily learn their two names by first identifying which natural key serves as the basis.
{Sharp (#)}
The sharp accidentals carry the symbol #. This symbol specifies that the note is a halftone higher than its natural. Note that a halftone is the smallest possible unit of the interval between each note or key. Therefore, keys like C and C#, A and Ab, and B and C are all divided by a halftone.
On a piano, a note’s sharp is the black key that lies directly to the right of a particular white key. As an exercise, look for all the accidentals of all natural notes on your keyboard. Say your natural note is D, look for the black key directly to its right. Take note that not all natural keys have sharp accidentals. The keys that lack their sharp accidentals are the keys B and E.
{Flat (b)}
A flat, denoted by the b symbol, makes a note a halftone lower in pitch. A note’s accidental is the key that sits immediately to the left of the natural key. Remember that just like with sharp accidentals, there are notes that don’t have their flat accidental. Both F and C keys don’t have their flat flats.
What do all this mean? If you look at it, while there are 88 keys on a standard keyboard, you only need to memorize 7 natural notes and 5 sharp or flat notes. What is even more amazing than this is that with only 12 notes, anyone can create virtually endless number of tunes.
Learn piano keys by knowing them by heart – that is the easiest route. Identify and practice playing each key and their accidentals until you become comfortable with the layout of your keyboard.
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