Chip Chick
But this can get weird; for example, A can also be called G sharp. Not confusing at all, right?
What if there’s no black key between white ones?
There are some cute little gaps where two white keys are next to each other. This happens between B and C and E and F.
Does that mean B sharp and E sharp don’t exist? Nope! But there are used less often than their other names; B sharp is the same pitch as C, so you usually just call it C. And E sharp is the same as F, so F it is. Woof.
What now?
I wasn’t sure where to go from here. I knew the names of the notes, but what came next?
Luckily, I understood the concept of multiple notes combining to make a named chord from playing guitar. But this knowledge didn’t necessarily translate to the piano since I couldn’t yet name all of the individual notes that make up guitar chords (but I’m still working on it)!
Then, a true life-saver.
I decided to turn to the internet but stayed away from traditional sheet music or those Guitar Hero-style follow-along videos.
I just looked up “Taylor Swift chords” and headed to the first link on the Ultimate Guitar site.
After picking a favorite song, I suddenly realized that right above the guitar chords I was usually looking for, there were little piano pictures with black dots on the keys; they showed each note that made up the song’s chords.
