Can Anybody Here Read A Treble Cleff?

[finkster]

OK so Im taking an online music class....Long story short i aced the first 3 quizzes and just got a 60 on my fourth

It was about half steps and whole steps.....I thought i understood but apparently i have no fucking clue.

I just cant distinguish the two sometimes....I know C and C# is a half step but, why is B to C a half step? Is there no such thing as a B# or something?

any help here is appreciated...

[Xplorer]

It has to do with scales. All major scales go (W-W-H-W-W-W-H), the W's stand for whole and H's are half steps.

So for instance, a G Major (just a clef, no key signature) would go G-A-B-C-D-E-F-G, where:

G-A is a whole step,

A-B is a whole step,

B-C is a half step,

C-D is a whole step,

D-E is a whole step,

E-F is a whole step,

F-G is a half step.

It can also help if you have a picture of a section of a keyboard in front of you labeled with all the notes so you can trace the pattern when you get into the other key signatures.

[01xtreme]

OK so Im taking an online music class....Long story short i aced the first 3 quizzes and just got a 60 on my fourth

It was about half steps and whole steps.....I thought i understood but apparently i have no fucking clue.

I just cant distinguish the two sometimes....I know C and C# is a half step but, why is B to C a half step? Is there no such thing as a B# or something?

any help here is appreciated...

No there is no such thing as a B sharp (C flat) or an E sharp (F flat). That is just how the scales ended up chromatically. The easiest way for most people to remember is to think of a piano's keyboard. There is no black key between B and C, or between E and F.

[finkster]

I studied this for a couple hours last night and it is starting to make sense, and i also did have a keyboard in my closet and labeled them...Thanks guys

[Xplorer]

Dude, I just LOL'ed at your av soo hard