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- How do I know which octave to play?
- How do you know what C to play on piano?
- Why does an octave start on C?
- How do you find the octave on a piano?
How do I know which octave to play?
The symbol that appears at the beginning of every staff is known as a clef. This symbol lets the musician know which notes to play as well as the octave to play them in. When reading sheet music, one of two clefs will be used—treble or bass.
How do you know what C to play on piano?
If middle C is written with a ledger line below the treble staff, you play it with your right hand; if it's written with a ledger line above the bass staff, you play it with your left hand.
Why does an octave start on C?
The C major scale has no sharps or flats, this scale was created before the piano. When they created the piano (or whatever similar instrument before) they wanted all the sharps and flats to be on the black keys. Since there are no sharps or flats in CM it became the one with no black keys.
How do you find the octave on a piano?
A piano octave is simply a set of 8 white notes (12 total if you count the black ones that are within that set. These notes technically run from A to G. But for some reason, the inventors of the piano decided to count from C to B. So the notes within each octave go like this: C, D, E, F, G, A, B.
