Accidentals in Music Theory

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Hey! I am Mark Black and I am here on expertvillage.com. I am here to talk to you about music theory and learning how to read music. Alright and then I want to talk about accidental. Accidentals, this beautiful word comments on a note concerning pitch are accidentals, and there are five of them but three are the ones that are most commonly used. And you know these as a sharp, which is this symbol, the number sign that is the word sharp, the flat, like a little B, and the natural. And I just want to tell you real briefly what those do to a note. So let us switch over to treble clef. We have seen our bass clef long enough. So that turns these notes into Gs, by the way, I mean Fs. So these are Fs now. So if I write the G and then I put a sharp in front of it, that is this is the G sharp, I raise the pitch one half step. One half step, the smallest interval in Western Music, I moved that note up. This is the G, just listen to the sound. This is a G, this is the G sharp. We went up a half step and we can do that with any note not just some of the notes, so we can have a D and we can sharp it.

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