How to Learn the notes on the keyboard

If you are learning how to play a keyboard instrument (it could be a digital interface tuner for an instrument, keyboard, or an 88-key piano), learning the notes on the keyboard is an important first step. first. This article helps you familiarize yourself with the position of the keys, the names of the notes, and begin a long musical journey. Please continue reading this article.

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Identify repeating groups of keys on a piano. Find the note “Do” on the keyboard like in the image below. This is the first note of the C major scale: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sp, La, Si and back to Do.

Remember the groups of white keys: Three white keys surround two black keys and four white keys surround three black keys.
You can also visualize it the following way: the black keys cycle in a group of five keys, where the first two black keys are separated by a white key, followed by two white keys, then three black keys are separated by a white key followed by two white keys.
Each such group will be the same on the entire keyboard. Each note on the keyboard represents a sound in an octave consisting of 12 notes. They differ only in pitch.

Identify black keys. Observe the picture below, identify and memorize the position of the black keys on the keyboard.

Note that each black key can have two names. Example: There is a note named C sharp and D flat. What you call this note depends on what voice or chord the music you play belongs to. Here are the names of the black key notes:
The first black key in the group is the C sharp or D flat note 1
The second black key in the group is D sharp or E flat 2
The third black key in the group is the note F sharp or Sp flat 3
The fourth black key in the group is Sp sharp or A flat 4
The fifth black key in the group is A sharp or Si flat 5
Note that if you want to know what the black key is, you can align to the white key right in front (to the left hand side) and add a pound sign or align to the white key right behind (to the right hand side) and add a descend.

Find out which octave the note is in. Refer to the picture above.

Start by finding the middle C note. This note is in the fourth octave and is highlighted in red as shown above.
Scroll up or down to get to the octave region containing the key you are looking for. The number of octaves also increases or decreases according to the movement.

Practice looking at musical note notation. Practicing notation can help you understand the relationships between musical notes.

Here’s a chart showing what the white key notes look like musically, starting with C 4 (the C note is in the fourth octave).
Here is also a chart showing what the black key notes look like musically, starting with C sharp 4. In the upper line, the musical note is written as a sharp note. On the bottom line, the musical note is written as flat. Although they look different, they are essentially the same sound.

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Start from the first key on the left side. This is the lowest playable note called A no (the A note is in octave zero).

Move up (to the right) on the keyboard, using only the white keys. The keys you encounter are listed in detail as follows:

The first white key (leftmost or lowest) is La no
The second white key is Si no
The third white key is Dollar 1

Follow the interval. Pay attention to memorize the group that includes the following remaining white keys, starting with the third white key:

The third white key is the C note 1
The fourth white key is D 1
The fifth white key is the note Mi 1
The sixth white key is the note Fa 1 .
The seventh white key is the note Sp 1
The eighth white key is A 1 .
The ninth white key is the Si 1 . note
The tenth white key is C 2
After reaching Si 1, notice that the group repeats to transition to a higher octave: C 2. This group continues to run down the keyboard: from C 2 to C 3, from C 3 to C 4, so on…

Learn the black keys. Starting with the lowest black key on the keyboard — leftmost — the first black key is an A sharp zero or a Si flat zero.

The ♯ symbol reads as flat , and the ♭ symbol reads flat .

Move up (to the right) the keyboard, you will see a group of five black keys right after that:

The second black key is C sharp 1 or D flat 1.
The third black key is the D sharp 1 or the E flat 1.
The fourth black key is a Fa sharp 1 or Sp flat 1.
The fifth black key is the note Sp sharp 1 or A flat 1.
The sixth black key is A flat 1 or A flat 1.
Like the white key, the group of black keys will continue to repeat on the keyboard.

Advice

Memorize all the black and white keys in the same octave—from C to Quiz. Once you’ve memorized it, you’ll find that the keys are the same in any octave on the keyboard. Whether your guitar has two octaves or eight octaves, it’s all the same!
When you first learn to play the piano, you should spend time learning the correct hand position. Practicing the correct posture is very important to your progress. Learning to give up bad habits is always difficult!

Warning

Do not write the names of musical notes directly on the piano or keyboard. You should only buy a keyboard with the note name printed on it if you really want this. However, doing so is not good for practice because it can be quite easy to learn the keys at first, but later will make the player dependent and slow down your own progress.

Things you need

A piano or keyboard.
You will probably need to print the chart above first.
The enthusiasm to learn and the ability to memorize the notes on the piano.

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