Year 7 · Music · Notation and keyboard · Lesson 1
Finding your way around the keyboard
The keyboard: black-key patterns, the musical alphabet, finding C and F, middle C, octaves, sharps, flats, semitones and C position fingering.
17-minute video lesson
Teaching, worked examples and 20 practice questions solved step by step.
Watch free for a monthWhat your child will learn
- Name the white keys
- Find C and F using black-key groups
- Explain sharps, flats and semitones
- Use C position fingering
The method
- Find 2 or 3 blacks.
- Find C or F.
- Count alphabet.
- # right, b left.
Key words: musical alphabet, octave, middle C, sharp, flat, semitone.
Worked examples
The first three practice questions from the lesson, with every step.
Question 1
How many letters are in the musical alphabet?
- Step 1: A to G
Answer: 7
Question 2
What letter comes after G?
- Step 1: Start again
Answer: A
Question 3
C is just left of how many black keys?
- Step 1: Pair
Answer: 2