Guitar Learning Basics: Black and White Keys of the Piano

It is fundamental in piano playing to learn what the black and white keys represent. There are the natural keys, the sharps and the flats. This is the same with the guitar fretboard, there are natural frets and there are flats. According to experts of  jamorama review, this increases the knowledge of the beginner player to understand the purpose of scaling, chord structure, reading notes as well as playing the guitar.

The musical alphabets of the strings correspond to the musical alphabets of the black and white keys of the piano. The black keys are the sharps or flats while the whites are the natural tones. The frets are the black keys or the sharps or flats. It becomes a sharp when the fingers move up the black keys; it becomes a flat when the fingers move back to the black keys.

In guitar, playing an open A on the 5th string and moving UP the fretboard to the first fret, then the natural A has just become an A sharp. If with B played on the second fret and moving down to the first then the natural B is not a B flat or Bb.

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