The Music Flat Sign

The video on the flat sign is combined with the sharp sign video.

This is the FLAT SIGN.

If you see a flat sign before a note it means that you have to play the next key to the LEFT, and again it doesn't matter whether it's a black key or a white one.

The next musical piece, Siciliana by Bach, has B flat in the opening phrase.

The same rules apply for the sharp sign and the flat sign.
When a flat (b) note appears before a note, it applies to that note for the rest of the whole measure.

And if a flat sign appears on a certain note in the KEY SIGNATURE in the beginning of a piece, we'll be flatting the note throughout the whole piece.

Click here to go to the Sharp Sign Page to see some examples of how a sharp/flat sign appears in the key signature, or how we keep a note sharp/falt through out the whole bar when it appeared once in the beginning of the bar.

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Now let's play a few pieces with flats.

Pieces with Flats

In the next piano lesson we'll learn about the Natural Sign.