A piano keyboard with letter names on the white keys some whole steps are labeled. A whole step below the black key to the left of B is the black key to the left of the note A. For example, a whole step above the black key to the right of C is the black key to the right of the note D. To find a whole step from a black key you will want to count two keys to the right or left. Likewise, count two keys to the left to find a whole step below the notes C or F: the black keys to the left of the notes B and E, respectively. To find a whole step above the notes E or B, simply count two keys to the right: a whole step above E is the black key to the right of the note F, while a whole step above B is the black key to the right of the note C. Pairs of white keys with a black key in between them (A and B, C and D, D and E, F and G, and G and A) are a whole step apart. Example 2 shows a piano keyboard with the letter names of the white key pitches labeled, and some whole steps bracketed. The white keys some half steps are labeled.Ī whole step is the equivalent of two half steps. Having the black keys grouped into sets of either two or three makes it easier for a keyboardist to see and feel them more quickly. This is because E–F and B–C are both half steps. For example, the black key to the upper right of G is “in between” the notes G and A one would say that this black key is a half step above G and a half step below A. Two pairs of white keys-E/F and B/C-do not have black keys in between them (see Example 1). On the piano keyboard (see Example 1), for most of the white-key notes, a half step above that note will be the black key to its upper right, while a half step below it will be the black key to its upper left. Example 1 shows a piano keyboard with the letter names of the white-key pitches and some half steps labeled. Half Steps and Whole StepsĪ half step is considered to be the smallest interval, or distance between two notes, in Western musical notation. Before we discuss the names of the black keys, however, we must first learn about half steps and whole steps. In the last chapter, The Keyboard and the Grand Staff, we discussed the letter names of the white keys on the piano keyboard and noted that the black keys are grouped into alternating sets of two or three.
A sharp raises a note by a half step, while a flat lowers a note by a half step. An accidental changes the pitch of a note.A whole step above is two keys to its right, while a whole step below is two keys to its left. A half step above a key on the piano is the key to its immediate right, while a half step below a key on the piano is the key to its immediate left.
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