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What Are Natural Notes and What Does A Natural Sign Mean?

By Espie Estrella, About.com

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Question: What Are Natural Notes and What Does A Natural Sign Mean?
Answer: In music there is such a thing called "musical alphabet", this means each note has a name based on the alphabet. There are seven letters used in a musical alphabet arranged as follows: C - D - E - F - G - A - B - C. These seven letters are called the natural tones, on a piano/keyboard these are the names of the white keys. The white key to the left of two black keys is always a C, the next key to the right is always a D, next to that is E and so on.

Sharps and flats are also called accidentals. A natural sign is used to cancel out any key that is sharped or flatted. As an example if a note is in C sharp a natural sign will bring the note back to its natural tone which is C. In the same way if a note is in F flat, a natural sign will bring back that note to its natural tone which is F.

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