Basic Music Theory: How to Read, Write, and Understand Written Music

Basic Music Theory

CHAPTER

CHAPTER 19 THE PIANO KEYBOARD

In This Chapter

• Note Names on the Piano Keyboard


• Flats and Sharps on the Keyboard


• Half Steps


• Enharmonic Notes


• Natural Half Steps


• Whole Steps


• Chromatic Scale

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing

is intermittent.

— Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)