Category: Music Theory

My musical friend, I'm so glad you're here! This is such an interesting question that has probably bothered you for a long time--why are all the instruments in the band in different keys? It makes...

There are so many different symbols you'll find in sheet music and it can be tough to keep track of which is which. Several of them look very similar to one another. I'm going to focus on all the...

Hey... wait a second! If you look at all the notes of a chromatic scale, you'll see this: C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B, C. Where is E or B Sharp? Or F and C flat for that...

It's amazing what kind of musical notation you can stumble on. You might have seen an S or a squiggly line that's not a trill above your music, and thought "how on earth do I play that?" Well,...