No, it actually raises the tone by a half step. A flat lowers it.
In standard musical notation the sharp sign (#) denoted a note raised by a half step. There are also half sharps and 3/4-sharps for raising a note by 1/4 tone or 3/4 tone respectively.
It is a half step higher and a half step lower.
C-sharp. The leading tone is one half-step below the tonic.
It means the tone is 1/2 step above the note given. A full step would be to go from A to B, therefore a half step would be A sharp.
Not its half a tone lower - On a treble scale the A key (note) will be in increasing tone; Ab(A flat), A (A natural) A# (A Sharp)
In standard musical notation the sharp sign (#) denoted a note raised by a half step. There are also half sharps and 3/4-sharps for raising a note by 1/4 tone or 3/4 tone respectively.
It is a half step higher and a half step lower.
C-sharp. The leading tone is one half-step below the tonic.
It means the tone is 1/2 step above the note given. A full step would be to go from A to B, therefore a half step would be A sharp.
The leading tone in a key is one half-step below the tonic. In the key of A major, the leading tone is G-sharp.
It's one half-step, or one semitone.
Not its half a tone lower - On a treble scale the A key (note) will be in increasing tone; Ab(A flat), A (A natural) A# (A Sharp)
The leading tone in a scale is one half-step below the tonic. In the key of C# major, the leading tone is B#.
The leading tone in any key is one half-step below the tonic. In the key of D-sharp, the leading tone is C-double-sharp (it can't be spelled as D-natural, because the letter D is already used for the tonic).
To find sharp key signatures, look at the last sharp in the key signature and go up one half step. This note is the leading tone and indicates the key of the music.
E natural and F natural are a half step away. With accidental marks like # and b, they tell you to either move up or down a half step. There's another two, but I can't show them on this answer thing. But those are the only ones that make you move up or down a whole step.So, Fb would be moving down a half step. Move down a half step and you've got E natural.
a tone in the step between a note and another note that are not sharps or flats. ie. A to B is a tone but B to C is a semi tone/ half step