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Octaves on the keyboard
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Two Cs: different heights, the same letter.
The distance from one C to the next C is an octave. The two notes blend almost like one.
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From one C, count twelve keys before the next C.
Count every key, black and white: seven white and five black. The thirteenth key is C again.
Play the twelve keys up from C, one by one.
Black and white, no key skipped. On the thirteenth you land on C again.
How many keys, black and white, does one octave hold?
Every letter has a twin one octave up.
Twelve keys higher, the same letter, the same place next to its group.
Listen. Same letter an octave apart, or two different letters?
Learn one octave, and you know the whole piano.
Every group of two and three repeats, so every key has a twin twelve keys away.
Any octave counts. Pick the one closest to you.
You know the keyboard repeats.
What you learned
- An octave is the distance from one note to the next with the same letter.
- One octave holds twelve keys: seven white and five black.
- Every key has a twin an octave higher and lower.
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