From the course: Rock Guitar Lessons: Teach Yourself to Play
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Sharps, flats, and naturals
From the course: Rock Guitar Lessons: Teach Yourself to Play
Sharps, flats, and naturals
- Okay, next let's cover accidentals. So there's three kinds of accidentals that we'll work on, and that is sharps, flats and naturals. Let's look at the note D, on the third fret of the second string, that is D. If a sharp symbol was before it, it would go one fret higher. Sharp takes it up one fret. If it was a flat symbol before it, it would go back one fret from D to D flat, okay? This is D, this is D sharp, this is D, this is D flat. A natural symbol just cancels out any of the sharp or the flat, okay? Generally, within a measure if there is a sharp or a flat, that sharp or flat lasts the entire measure. So if there's a D sharp, and then a D appears after it, it is also sharp, unless of course a natural proceeds that note. So it would need a natural to cancel it out. So this would be D natural, D sharp, D natural, D flat again. Now any of the notes can have sharps or flats, and because of that, there's different spellings, and those are called N-harmonics. Let's just look at the…
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