How to Read Music (Reading) 7

In previous lessons, we've looked at the names of notes.  The names on a keyboard correspond to names of notes on any pitched instrument, and even voices.  If you look at the diagram of a keyboard at the top of any page in my blog, you'll see a diagram of the keyboard with its white keys and black keys.  So far in these Khan Academy music lessons, conductor Gerard Schwarz has only discussed the names of notes on white keys: A, B, C, D and so on. 

What, though, are the names of the black keys?  We need the black keys in order to find the white keys.  A "C," for example is the white key just to the left of the two black keys.  But what are the names of those black keys?  Do they even have names? 

To answer that question, we have to understand accidentals.  We have to understand sharps, flats, and naturals.  (We also need the white keys in order to find the names of the black keys.)

Lesson 7 in this series of 10 lessons is only 2 1/2 minutes long.  It focuses on accidentals and the names of black keys.  After you've watched this video, I invite you to take the 10-question quiz I wrote to help you recall it. 

https://youtu.be/r9JS_vZOGVg

Next week: How to Read Music (Reading) 8