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This lesson will help you understand what sharps (♯) and flats (♭) are in music, where they come from and how they appear on guitar. You've probably heard the terms "sharp" and "flat" being used by musicians, but perhaps aren't quite sure what they mean.
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Feb 15, 2022 · The symbol for a sharp note is the hashtag (#) symbol, which is said and written after the letter (but appears before the note head in music notation). Lowering an alphabet note a half step makes it flat.
Sharps (#) raise a note by one step (clockwise.) Flats (♭) lower a note by one step (counterclockwise.) Some notes sound the same but have different names, depending on how we reach them! Enharmonic Equivalents are their name if you want to show off!
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The following music symbols are general symbols for an entire song or composition. These are the structure or backbone for which all other symbols are added. 1. Staff (stave): This is the foundational element of music notation. The staff is the graphic of 5 lines and 4 spaces on which notes are placed for communication of a musical composition. Sta...
Some directions are simple like “Repeat and fade”. You may also see “No Chord” (N.C) though a chord is suggested. However, the following music symbols definitely need explanation. 1. Repeat signs: You see repeat signs when there is a measure, multiple measures or a section that is to be repeated. Repeat signs are bold double bar lines that have a d...
Sorry for stating with the difficult stuff, but now we are getting into the music symbols for playing! The following symbols have to deal with the volume of the music. You may see words or abbreviations for the words instead of actual symbols. This quality of music, in general, is known as dynamics. 1. Accented note: The note with this symbol is pl...
Some sheet music will have additional words at the beginning of the score or song such as “Moderately”, “bright”, “Latin feel”, etc. You may also see the words Adagio, Moderato, Allegro, Vivace and others. I’m skipping all of those since they are words, not symbols. The measure symbol mentioned above is the container of the notes that equal the val...
The following are various ways to actually play notes on the guitar. Not all of them have symbols but these methods are how you make noise known as music on a guitar. 1. Fingerpicking/fingerstyle: You either see PIMA (thumb, index, middle, ring) or T1234 (thumb, index, middle, ring, pinky) to represent which right-hand fingers to use for the variou...
This is a relatively simple section dealing with the different methods of playing chords. 1. Chord (Symbol & Diagram): Chords are notated as notes stacked on top of each indicating to play all the notes at the same time. You will also see either the chord symbol/name or a chord diagram. 2. Arpeggiated Chord: A chord with notes played in rapid succe...
The following are techniques that produce sound but not from pitches, though you will hear the pitch slightly with some of the techniques. They involve either using the strings or an acoustic guitar body to make the percussive sounds. The techniques that may sound an actual pitch are the dead note effects: ghost note, palm mutes, and rakes. You wil...
I saved the best for last. These are the techniques that most guitar players are familiar with. I will briefly cover them and show some of the music symbols, but I will be writing an in-depth article on all these embellishments.
That’s called a “sharp symbol,” or “♯.” And it’s closely related to “flats,” or “♭.” Both symbols denote a higher and lower pitch, respectively, and you’ll find them all over the fretboard.
The musical alphabet (and hence, order of guitar notes) looks like this: A, A#, B, C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A. Quick Tip The # symbol means sharp [. So you pronounce A# as A sharp _. Sharps vs flats Sharps and flats are the same thing, just looked at from a different angle. We can describe all sharps as flats.
A sharp symbol (see below) is placed next the the note. A sharp raises the pitch of a note by a semitone. Therefore, if you see a sharp sign next to a note, you should play it one fret higher.
