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Author: mark
Date: 2002-11-09 21:11
im a beginer on the keyboard and i want to play counting crows colorblind but i dont get what are octives? it says right hand a3 c3 a3 stuff like that i know what a's and c's are but whats the number by them mean?
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Author: TigerTenor
Date: 2002-11-10 01:51
The number after the letter name indicates the specific "A" or "C" (the octave) that the writer is looking for. The smaller the number, the lower the octave. I believe C3 is middle C...I think. Those who know for certain, please correct me.
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Author: Gnomon
Date: 2002-11-10 13:05
Mark, if you play the note C and then proceed up the white notes of the keyboard, you will come to D, E, F, G, A, B and then another C. Playing these two C's together, you will hear they sound the same but different. One is higher than the other. An octave is the musical distance between these two notes. The high C is an octave higher than the low C. You could also play an octave lower by going the opposite direction from C downward through B, A, G, F, E, D and down to a very low C. This is an octave lower than the the first C.
Another use of the word octave is to mean all the notes from C up as far as B. All seven notes are 'in the same octave'. Octaves on a full size piano can be numbered so that the notes in the first octave are C1, D1, E1, and so on, the next octave are C2, D2 etc. Middle C is C4.
This system is not standard, so whatever book you are using may use a slightly different way of labelling the notes. Middle C might be C3 or C2 on your keyboard.
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Author: Saxplaya
Date: 2002-11-10 20:19
Sorry tigertenor but your a little bit wrong.
c1 is middle c the higher you go the higher the number The lower you go first the c get cap. to C then it goes CC then CCC and well you get the picture.
hope this helps.
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Author: Gnomon
Date: 2002-11-11 08:36
There are few different ways of labelling the octaves. The American way is call the lowest octave on the piano keyboard 1, the next octave 2 and so on. In this system, C4 is middle C.
The European way is to use a lowercase c for the c below middle c. Middle c itself has a tick (an apostrophe) beside it so it is c' while higher c notes have more ticks: c'' c''' etc. The note an octave below c is called C in upper case. Lower c notes have a subscript tick like a comma so we have C, C,, and so on.
There are other systems as well. I haven't seen the system described by Saxaplaya.
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Author: Saxplaya
Date: 2002-11-12 23:53
The system i use comes from Dr.spencer hes supposebly (i cant spell) the music theory god and Its the way its tought at Florida stae university and and At my high school in the middle of nowhere in florida. We have an AP(advance placement as in get college credit) Music theory class and thats on of the first things we learn. Well I only know a little cause my friend is teaching me piano so I dont know much yet but if im totally wrong im ok with it cause im ussually one but the way i learn it Was that C1 was middle C. If I had the tittle of the book we used i would say it but i dont.
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Author: Rachel
Date: 2004-03-04 18:43
im a beginer on the keyboard and our class has to know how to play a sevventh grade song(im in 7th grade)!!! Would you send me a few songs?
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