Letters above staff?

1. What are letters above the staff called?
2. What does the letter above the staff mean?
3. What does a letter above a note mean?
4. What are the 7 pitch names?

What are letters above the staff called?

When you encounter sheet music or songbooks containing just melodies and lyrics, you usually also get the little letters and symbols called chord symbols above the staff.

What does the letter above the staff mean?

The letters above mean the implied/intended harmony. There are 2 possibilities I see here as to why an F and C7 are listed. If you are playing solo. There are certain common chord progressions in music.

What does a letter above a note mean?

Those letter symbols stand for the appropriate chords to accompany the melody note below. They are what's called "harmony" - guitar players, for example, do a lot of chord backup for singers.

What are the 7 pitch names?

In one of the most common pitch-naming schemes, each pitch is referred to as one of the first 7 characters in the Latin / Roman / English / etc. alphabet - namely A, B, C, D, E, F and G. The pitch named "A" is the lowest frequency, and the pitch named "G" is the highest.