![]() The black keys on your piano can be either sharp or flat. Anytime you see a flat symbol before any note on a piece, go one piano key to the left. A♭ is one semitone lower than A, and so on. E♭ is one semitone (half step) lower than E and is the key to the immediate left of E on your piano. B♭ is the black key to the immediate left of B on your piano. For instance B♭ is a semitone lower than B. When you come across a flat sign, you are to play the note that is a semitone lower. When you come across a sharp before a note on a musical piece, it means to play the note one half step (semitone) higher. In terms of its effect on a note, this sign is basically the opposite of a sharp sign. Highly Recommended: Click here for one of the BEST piano/keyboard courses I’ve seen online. When typing, we normally use the regular lowercase letter, “ b” to represent this sign, but the actual symbol is ♭ which is is a stylized lowercase “b”. The order of flats in the key signatures of music notation, following the circle of fifths, is B ♭, E ♭, A ♭, D ♭, G ♭, C ♭ and F ♭ ( mnemonics for which include Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles' Father and Before Eating A Doughnut Get Coffee First).ĭouble flats also exist, which look like (similar to two flats, ♭ ♭) and lower a note by two semitones, or a whole step.Let’s take a look at the flat sign. ![]() Furthermore, the verb flatten means to lower the pitch of a note, typically by a small musical interval. If two simultaneous notes are slightly out-of-tune, the lower-pitched one (assuming the higher one is properly pitched) is "flat" with respect to the other. In intonation, flat can also mean "slightly lower in pitch" (by some unspecified amount). To allow extended just intonation, composer Ben Johnston uses a sharp as an accidental to indicate a note is raised 70.6 cents (ratio 25:24), and a flat to indicate a note is lowered 70.6 cents. In any other tuning system, such enharmonic equivalences in general do not exist. Under twelve-tone equal temperament, D ♭ for instance is enharmonically equivalent to C ♯, and G ♭ is equivalent to F ♯. ![]()
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