The Sharp Sign

Guys, I take the oppurtunity here to reccomend one of my favorite piano beginner books. CLASSIC THEMES BY THE MASTERS PIANO BY JAMES BASTIEN is a great book with very beautiful piano arrangements for beginners. What I love about this book is that it contains all the beautiful pieces that a beginner would ever dream to play and it is arranged in a very nice easy going way. It's so nice to feel that you can really play great music even when you started playing the piano just a few months ago. Each theme of the book deals with a different musical issue whether it's how to play crescendo, play a piece with sharps and flats or some interesting technical issues. This book stands on top of my list. It's a must when it comes to starting to play the piano.

Until today we have been playing musical pieceso that dealed with the white keys, but if you played a few songs on different places on the as I suggested to do in the Play Piano By Ear section you probably realized that you also have to press the black keys in order to get the melody right.

The next musical piece, Symphony in D minor by Cesar Franck has a G sharp in the opening theme.

Later on we're going to see that sometimes a sharp sign is stated in the key signature.
If a sharp sign is not stated in the key signature but only on a certain place in a musical pieces it is called Accidental

When a sharp (#) note appears before a note, it applies to that note for the rest of the measure. Look at how "Odd to joy" could be notated for example...

Sometimes, a piece will have a certain pitch sharped throughout.
Musical scales are a formula of whole notes and half notes.

A piece will have a sharp sign throughout because it is written in a certain musical scale that involves that raised note as a part of its formula.
We're going to discuss musical scales later on in our piano lessons, but for now, I'd like you to notice that that the sign of that sharped pitch would be indicated at the beginning of a piece, in the KEY SIGNATURE instead of placing a sharp before each and every note of these certain pitches.

Now let's play a few pieces with sharps and flats.

In the next piano lesson I'll show you some important music accent marks. It will enrich your music articulation.

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Pieces with Sharps

In the next piano lesson we'll learn about the music flat sign.