#TheoryThursday: Piano Keys

Did you know that the white keys used to be black, and the black ones white?

Anyway, today, all the lines and spaces on The Great Staff correspond to a particular white key on a piano. To indicate a black key should be used, we us the sharp (#) (yes it looks very much like a hashtag, although is drawn with straight vertical lines and slanted horizontal ones) and flat (b), which is a squished little B.

Learn more over at pianonet.com.