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The musical alphabet is a scale. You just don’t necessarily start at the beginning depending what key you are in. The key of C starts halfway through the scale which doesnt matter because the scale repeats when you get to the end.
A is the lowest note, g the highest, and then it repeats in octaves as far as the musical scale is concerned. Basically it just keeps repeating abcdefgabcdefgabcdefgabcdefg . As you go one way it repeats deeper and deeper, the othwr way it repeats higher and higher
The way a guitar is laid out the open chords highest D and the lowest E because tuned to the key of E half the noted are technically in one octave and half in the next. For example a G note should be higher pitch than an A note but the open g on the guitar is actually in the next octave lower so it ends up deeper.
Someone correct me if im worng but The open chords from highest pitch to lowest pitch (as arranged on guitar) areD, C,B,A G,E because the guitar is usually tuned to Concert Pitch EADGBe which makes it centered around the key of E
A piano on the other hand is centered on C and has a much simpler layout.
This is hard to understand and probably not even that important to know. In the end we just try to make pretty noise regardless of what the notes are called.
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This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by That_Guy.
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