For the diatonic scales, there are 7 different notes, but 8 if you count the upper octave, whatever it happens to be. This is independent of the color of the keys, since the major scale can start on any of the 12 distinct notes/keys on the keyboard.
C D E F G A B C
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
There are (as noted in the discussion) 12 distinct notes in a chromatic octave of the standard western scale, 13 if you count the lower and upper octave notes. This arrangement represents a compromise arrived at over centuries, and need for the compromise stems basically from the fact that when using a circle of fourths and fifths to tune notes, it is physically impossible to tune every note as a perfect interval. Several different tuning systems have been developed over the years, but western musics have generally settled on the equal
temperament made popular by Bach.
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New Answer By 7D8f Octavian:
If you arranged the TEN NATURAL fingers in two rows they would look thus:
______L Index_____L Ring_____R Little____R Middle
L Thumb____L Middle____L Little____R Ring_____R Index_____R Thumb
Left little finger is in the LOWER row
Right little finger is in the UPPER row
If you call the little finger as DEVIL there are TWO DEVILS !
You call the lower row fingers as "NATURALS"
and the UPPER ROW fingers as "ACCIDENTALS"!
WONDERFUL, MOST 'SCIENTIFIC', "OCCIDENTALS" YOU ARE !!!
If you arranged the FOURTEEN NATURAL notes in two rows they would be :
____d_____e_____f_____g_____a_____b
C1____D_____E_____F_____G_____A_____B_____C2
If you call the seventh note as DEVIL, there are TWO DEVILS
For, the seventh note leftwards from the right C2 is g ( diminished fifth)
{C1____D____E____F } is the DIATONIC (WHITE) TRITONE 45/32
Conversely
{ C2____b____a____g }is the CHROMATIC (BLACK) TRITONE 64/45
2 divided by 64/45 is 45/32 and 2 divided by 45/32 is 64/45
If you call 45/32 as devil 64/45 is EQUALLY DEVIL, too !
In Indian music both of them are DIVINES
45/32 is called the KALYANI Madhyama and
64/45 is called the VARALI Madhyama
The Indians learnt from your KEYBOARD (HARMONIUM)
But you have maimed and mangled your keyboard and
your Christian Music and now are learning from the Indian "Karnatic" musicians
who are the products of
TAMIL ONAMATOPOEIC MONOSYLLABLES ( Sa-Ri-Ga-Ma-Pa-Dha-Ni)
and the western twelve note keyboard and fretboard
but will store their every new knowledge in the "Bharata's Natya Sastra"
and throw it back in time as many millenniums as possible
try 5x8. there are 8 keys in one octave, and you want to know 5 0ctaves. multiply
8 including the one you started on 7 if you don't count that one
If you look at the piano keys you will notice there is a pattern in the way the black notes interleave the white notes. This pattern is repeated several times along the keyboard. If you select any key (black or white) and then look for the same key in the next repeat of the pattern to the right, that is one octave higher. Another way is, for a white note, call that "1", then counting white notes as you go to the right, one octave higher is note 8. Starting with any black note called "1", then counting black notes only, one octave higher is note 6. There are fewer black notes than white ones. One octave higher is double the sound frequency.
Piano octaves can be any name on the piano of one note, C octave, G# octave, Bb octave. An octave stands for octo which means 8 in Latin. If you notice any distance between two of the same notes they will always be eight (in terms of counting intervals, which means you count the first and last notes and well as all in between). Therefore if you pick any note on the piano, eight notes up or down from there will be an octave.
In an octave there are eight white notes, C D E F G A B C. For the black notes there are 6, if you are going from C sharp to C sharp again. Hope this helps. Five black keys per octave is probably a better way to think about it.
there are 8
8 - oct as in eight.
try 5x8. there are 8 keys in one octave, and you want to know 5 0ctaves. multiply
One octave has 8 notes in it (I think so, I'm not completely sure)
Bass guitar strings are tuned to the same notes as the thickest four strings of an electric guitar, but they are tuned one octave lower. So, the same notes, but one octave "deeper".
8 including the one you started on 7 if you don't count that one
An octave is eight consecutive notes, for example from one C to the next (C,D,E,F,G,A,B,C).
A typical alto saxophone can reach a B-flat one octave lower than its natural octave and a high F-natural (sometimes F-sharp) one octave higher than its natural octave. So some notes that can be played are A-flat, B-natural, and G-sharp, which are all in the alto saxophone's natural octave.
If you look at the piano keys you will notice there is a pattern in the way the black notes interleave the white notes. This pattern is repeated several times along the keyboard. If you select any key (black or white) and then look for the same key in the next repeat of the pattern to the right, that is one octave higher. Another way is, for a white note, call that "1", then counting white notes as you go to the right, one octave higher is note 8. Starting with any black note called "1", then counting black notes only, one octave higher is note 6. There are fewer black notes than white ones. One octave higher is double the sound frequency.
Piano octaves can be any name on the piano of one note, C octave, G# octave, Bb octave. An octave stands for octo which means 8 in Latin. If you notice any distance between two of the same notes they will always be eight (in terms of counting intervals, which means you count the first and last notes and well as all in between). Therefore if you pick any note on the piano, eight notes up or down from there will be an octave.
Well, first of all, an octave is usually referred to as two notes, being 8 notes apart (although if you include sharps and flats they are 12 notes apart). If an instrument is said to have a "2 octave range", that simply means one can play up to 24 different sounding notes on the instrument. My poor illustrations... imagine a piano.... This would be one octave. ---------------------------------- Bb C# Eb F# G# A B C D E F G A ---------------------------------- An instrument with a 2 octave range would be able to play... -------------------------------------------------------------------- Bb C# Eb F# G# Bb C# Eb F# G# A B C D E F G A B C D E F G A --------------------------------------------------------------------
Yes. The Alto is an Eb instrument where the Tenor is a Bb instrument. The Alto plays one octave above Baritone and the Tenor one octave above Bass.