I hope I don’t scare you away by mentioning music theory, but knowing a little theory will help you a lot. If you remember the next group of words, you already know a little bit of theory - do - re - me - fa - sol - la - ti - do. This a major scale; in the key of C - these notes are C - D - E - F - G - A - B - C.
The following scale is the C chromatic scale : C - C#/Db - D - D#/Eb - E - F -F#/Gb - G - G#/Ab - A -A#/Bb - B. The interval between the notes is known as a half-step or semitone and a whole step is equal to two half-steps. Notice that there is an extra note between each note of the major scale except between E and F, and B and C, these notes are known as flats (b) or sharps (#). All that a sharp means, is that the note was raised a half-step; a flat is lowered by a half step. Depending on where you start, you can describe the same note as flat or a sharp, for example C# and Db are the same note.
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