Finding Middle C on Pianos

Video Transcript

"In this segment I'm going to talk about the names of the notes. There's a - the names of the notes are basically an alphabet, and they only go from A to G, it's easier than going from A to Z. The alphabet goes A, B, C, D, E, F, G, then it starts again over in A. Now our best friend, the most important note to know in all of the piano is middle C. That's the center of the universe for the piano. Now, as you can see there are black keys, and there are white keys. And the black keys are grouped into groups of three, two, three, two, three, two, three, two, it goes on and on like that. If you find a group of black, two black keys, and you go to the left, that is C. And that's just how you find where C is. So if I was going to find another C I'd find a group of two black keys and play a C. Another two black keys, find a C. And to find middle C, our center of gravity for the piano, you'd find where the words are, you know, this is a Samick, there's Yamaha, Roland, there's all types of brands of pianos. And I would find the C closest to the words, so this is my middle C. And we talked about, this is going up, so I go C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C, D, E. And if this is C I go down, B, A, G, F, E, D, C."