A Short Introduction To Music

There are only seven different notes in music.We will call them by the first seven letters of the alphabet A-B-C-D-E-F-G(Its like the seven days in a week).After the last note which is 'G' we begin again with the 'A' note. being that this 'A' note is the first and the eighth note,we therefore call it the 'Octave', which stands for Eight.It sounds about the same as the first 'A' note but one octave higher.These explanation could be understood better by the following diagram:- There are White keys and Black keys where black keys are divided into groups of two and threes.Thus there are many 'A' note on the keyboard and sounds the same except that each is one octave higher. The Black notes lies in between the whole notes and represents half notes.There are no black notes between 'B' and 'C' and between 'E' and 'F'.Thats because these notes are actually only a half note apart. Minor Scale: when we play the notes starting with 'A' and continuing with B-C-D-E-F-G and up to the next 'A' without using any of the black notes,we have played the key called 'A' minor(also written as 'Am').Notice that the half notes are between 'B' and 'C' and 'E' and 'F'. Any time we follow this pattern it is called a minor scale. Chords: chords are more than two notes or a group of notes when played together to make a pleasant sound.There are many different chords but only a few chords are required to play for a particular song or piece of music.