03 Sep Notes In Music

Notes  In Music

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Nowadays music has become an important part of our life. We do our many things listening to music and for many it works as a profession. Some listen it just for entertainment but for some they want to make their career into it. So one must have proper knowledge in it. Having proper knowledge in music may help in becoming a good musician. So a person must start from learning the notes of music.

Today we are going to learn about all the notes of music and how to memorize them all. So there are a total of 12 notes in which 7 are Natural Notes and 5 are Accidental Notes(I am providing two video links at bottom of this page check them out for better understanding).

Now Let’s see the Natural Notes, in music there are 7 Natural Notes they are A  B  C  D   E  F  G, these are in alphabets starting from A to G. After G there is no more alphabets in music, A is repeated back again. So basically with the use of these Seven Notes we are going to get all the Twelve notes, these notes come in between these seven notes.

So the remaining 5 notes are Accidental Notes they comes in between our Natural Notes. So these notes

are A#/Bb  C#/Db  D#/Eb  F#/Gb  G#/Ab

Now let’s understand how it works there are two things in accidental notes Sharp(#) and Flat(♭), Sharp is half step higher than a particular note and Flat is half step lower than a particular note. So all these notes differ from each other through intervals. These intervals are the gaps between them, they are also known as Whole Step and Half Step or Tone and Semi Tone.

Now what are these Whole Step and Half Step. So basically they are denoted by symbols W and H, here W stands for Whole Step & H stands for Half Step, these are the distance between one note to other. Whole Step means there is a difference of 1 fret between 2 notes for example:- if we play 1^st string 1^st fret its F Major Note then the whole step to this note will be 1^st string 3^rd fret as we need difference of 1 fret between them so the note will be G note as we skip one note between F & G that is F#.

Similarly in case of Half Step there is no skipping of Fret between notes the next Fret note is considered as Half Step, let us look at same example :- if we if we play 1^st string 1^st fret its F Major note so the Half Step for this note will be just next Fret note which is 1^st string 2^nd Fret that is F# Major, here we did not skipped any Fret as we moved from 1^st to 2^nd Fret. So, that’s it for interval(I am providing two video links at bottom of this page check them out for better understanding).

I hope now you understand completely about Whole Step and Half Step let’s move ahead so in all Natural notes there is the Difference of Whole Step between notes except B & C and E & F. These two pairs have a difference of half step between them. Don’t get confused just remember after B Note there will be only C Note and after E Note there will be only F Note. Now let’s check out our accidental notes how they combine with Natural Notes to become all 12 Notes.

So first note starts with A(we are going alphabetically) next is B note so as I stated earlier that there is difference of Whole step between Natural notes so between A Note and B Note there is difference of one fret, so these differences between natural notes will be filled up using accidental notes. Let’s see how as I stated earlier about sharps and flats so we are moving higher from A so it will be Sharp, so it is named as A Sharp or in symbol as A#. Similarly if we look through B then the same note can be considered as lower from B so it will be B Flat or in symbol as Bb(I am providing two video links at bottom of this page check them out for better understanding). Now most of us think that these two are different notes but actually these two notes are same its just name changes in respective of use. So A# and Bb are same notes, now we are able to place a note between A and B rest all remaining notes will also be placed in similar ways so let’s check them out.

We have got A   A#/Bb  B now after B as I stated earlier there is no difference between B & C so after B we have our next note C. Now after C we have D in natural note so there is a difference between them so after C its going higher so the next note will be C# similarly in case of D it is going lower so it will be a Db. The note that comes between C & D is C#/Db (both are same). Next is between D and E so the higher of D will be D# and lower of E will be Eb, so our next note is D#/Eb Note. Moving ahead after E we have F as stated earlier just like B and C there is also no note between E and F. So after E we have F Note. Next is note between F & G, higher to F is F# and lower to G is Gb so our note between F and G is F#/Gb. Now last is between G and A Note, so higher to G is G# and lower to A is Ab. Our final note come G#/Ab, this completes our all 12 notes. Now have a look at all the 12 notes of our music theory.

A  A#/Bb  B  C  C#/Db  D  D#/Eb  E  F  F#/Gb  G#/Ab

After G#/Ab A is repeated back again. So, in these ways we can easily memorize or find out notes in music.

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