Piano 61 Keys Notes
Jacque Waiden
I think you wrote your event handler code for the key press wrong. You appear to be writing new functions for what has to happen when the mouse button is pressed down and for when it is released. You have already written these functions. You just need to call them.
I found this project a bit messy! I felt like the wording was pretty hard to get through the project. I also expected the piano keys to actually function. By the end I felt disconnected to the project, which might have had an impact on the outcome.
Use your computer keyboard or click the piano keys to play the piano. The keyboard's top row of letters corresponds to the white keys, and the row of numbers corresponds to the black keys. You can play multiple notes simultaneously.
Click "Hide note names" above the piano to hide the note names. Click "Mark" to mark notes on the piano. Play the marked notes by clicking the "Play" button (only visible after notes have been marked) or pressing the spacebar on your keyboard.
Try our free piano exercises and learn to play notes, intervals, chords, and scales on the piano. You'll also find a variety of other exercises that will expand your musical understanding and help you become better at playing the piano.
Black piano keys sit higher than and to the rear of the white keys. Boards are laid out in configurations of seven white keys and five black keys (a total of 12 keys) which repeat across the keyboard. Note that the black keys form a two-key, three-key pattern which provides the identification of the white keys below.
The most important musical scales are typically written using eight notes, and the interval between the first and last notes is an octave. For example, the C major scale is typically written C D E F G A B C, the initial and final Cs being an octave apart. Two notes separated by an octave have the same letter name and are of the same pitch class.
Unless your piano is an antique with ivory keys, a little vinegar, water and a soft cloth are all you need to buff up dirty keys. Try not to use a colored cloth. Be careful not to drip water between the keys; keep the moisture just damp on the cloth. And follow with a dry cloth to buff.
With ivory keys, know that they tend to yellow with age and that a typical cleaning will not restore them to white. Ivories should be cleaned with a soft cloth and a very mild solution of dishwashing detergent. It may be possible to whiten them placing them in the sun for a few hours. Before you go this route, be sure to speak with a piano technician who has experience with ivories. The main thing to remember is that piano keys should be cleaned regularly for health reasons. Little (and big) fingers are magnets for dirt and germs!
In this lesson, we will take a look at piano notes and keys. You will learn the notes which correspond to the white piano keys as well as the black ones. I will show you how easy it is to label all the keys of your keyboard, no matter how many it has. This includes 88-key, 76-key, 61-key, 49-key and other keyboards.
The first note we shall find is the note, C. What key plays the note, C on your keyboard? C is played with the white key that comes immediately before a set of two black keys. In other words, the key that is to the immediate left of a set of two black keys plays the note, C. There are several C notes on your keyboard. Every white key that comes immediately before a set of two black keys plays C.
Piano notes are named after the first seven letters of the alphabet. These notes are (obviously) A, B, C, D, E, F and G. These are the notes of the entire musical alphabet. There is no H. A B C D E F G keeps repeating.
How about the black keys? What are their names? Or to be a bit more precise, what notes do they play? Like the white keys, the black keys are named after the first seven letters of the alphabet except for the fact that they can be either sharp or flat.
Earlier, we saw that a piano key has more than one note name. A better way to put this is that one piano key can play more than one note. For example, the key that plays D flat can also play C sharp. When keys play more than one note, the notes are called enharmonic equivalents. So D flat and C sharp are enharmonic equivalents. The same can be said of D sharp and E flat. These enharmonic equivalents are played by the same key on the piano keyboard and sound the same on piano, but can have different note names depending on the key signature and other factors.
Even white keys have enharmonic equivalents. The key that plays C can also play B sharp (B#) since B# is one half step higher than B. The piano key that plays F can also play E sharp (E#) since E# is one half step higher than E. The key that plays E can also play F flat (Fb) since Fb is one half step lower than F. Learn more about half steps, whole steps, tones, semitones, sharps and flats here.
Sometimes a piano note can be called a double flat or double sharp, or even a triple sharp or flat. For instance, D is two semitones lower than E and the key that plays D can also play E double flat (Ebb). Double sharps and flats and triple sharps and flats are not as common.
I'm learning piano, and I have a hard time to use two or more fingers together on one hand at the same time - there is a slight interval, e.g. when I play the first and third finger, there is a slight difference in when the two fingers hit the keys. Any help would be appreciated.
My professor had me slow practice four-note chords in each hand to fix this. For example: CEGC, EGCE, GCEG, CEGC (an octave higher than the first one), GCEG, EGCE, CEGC. Together with both hands, each hand an octave apart. Make sure that the notes all fall together, do it with all the keys. It's also a great exercise for pedaling; see if you can make the chords come out legato by use of the pedal. That should keep you busy for a couple of years. :)
The thing to strive for is, as you say, to hit all the notes at once with no uneven ones. Best way to do this is form all fingers on the keys, touching the keys. Then put the notes down by leaning into your hand. You'll start to see very quickly what the problem is. If the fingers aren't holding their weight, you'll have to work on strengthening them. However, the problem is just as often improper placement of the hands before you hit the keys. Try curving the middle finger more, flattening all the fingers, different things like that, with the idea that all the fingers drop with equal force and at the same time.
A more advanced exercise is to try to make different notes stand out in the chord, once you can hit them all evenly. Very often in music, you'll have chord passages where the melody is in the little finger of the right hand, and you'll need to make the top note of the chord a little louder than the other notes. That's an ability that you'll need to develop eventually. Bringing notes out of the middle of the chord is harder, but also important to be able to do.
It's really just a matter of practice. Without seeing what's going on I would think that your fingers aren't as strong as they could be and some fingers are stronger then others. In this case just simple exercises like scales and arpeggios should be able to help.
If it's just a coordination problem then you can practice that by just practicing putting your fingers down at the same time. Just use the first 5 notes of the C major scale (C, D, E, F, and G) and practice playing two of the notes on the same hand at the same time. Once you get that down I suggest you move on to practice playing 3 notes at a time as chord will typically be composed of at least 3 notes and it is pretty common to play 3 notes on one hand.
If you have a MIDI keyboard and some MIDI recording software, you could use it as a feedback tool. Play some chords or intervals while the software records, and then analyze the MIDI data to see which note is being played first and by how much.
If the thumb is coming down first, try focusing on getting the third finger down earlier. Record your efforts and look at the results. It might be more helpful than trying to do it by ear or feel. As you repetitively get it "perfect", your muscles will remember how it feels and will do it naturally.
The first thing you need to know is that each note has a name and that notes are ordered like the English alphabet. We name notes from A to G and then repeat from A again. These are the names of all the white keys:
The time signature is located at the beginning of music right after the clef. The top number tells you how many beats will be in each measure (measure = a unit of music separated by bar lines). The bottom number tells you what type of note is worth 1 beat.
A chord you can easily recognize like a word is a root position triad. With three notes stacked neatly on top of each other, root position triads like a snowman. When you see a chord like this, you only really need to identify the lowest note on the bottom. The two other notes are just skips above.
Hey everyone :) I'm planning on building a piano/keyboard which plays its notes by controlling old electronic devices, to make them move at a certain frequency. But my question is, how many devices will i actually need in order so play good songs on that piano? What's the maximum amount of notes that have been used in a song by a piano at the same moment? I'm not that skilled in playing piano (yet).
I have seen a performing piano player run the back of his hand/fingers up/down the keyboard at the end of a song, so playing most of the white keys or most of the black. The TV didn't show what his right foot was doing to the pedals.
My digital piano has 256 note polyphony and 88 keys. I think it can play 3 voices simultaneously from the keyboard. So this level of polyphony accommodates 3 voices played simultaneously (e.g piano, choir and harpsichord voices) with the damper/sustain pedal down.
If there is only one player, and he is only using his hands then I think the maximum that could be struck at the same time will be something like 12,13 or 14, although you rarely see this in most "regular" music. I can play six notes with one hand fairly easily and perhaps seven if I try hard.
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