My daughter has to learn a song and she is stumped on a specific note: the D note (re) with a # sign before: Second note in the following picture:
Which key should she play that note with?
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Sign up to join this communityMy daughter has to learn a song and she is stumped on a specific note: the D note (re) with a # sign before: Second note in the following picture:
Which key should she play that note with?
Aryaman's answer answers the question - but with a question such as this, the following is important.
Yes, the note in question is D#, the black key which is the right-hand one of the two blacks together. However, that note is 'foreign' to the key - it's not in the key sig. So it needs to be shown with that accidental. That accidental then lasts for the rest of the bar, unless cancelled.
Therefore, the other D in that same bar needs to be played as D#, even though there's no other accidental.In other words, the last note in that bar is also D#. Any D notes in subsequent bars will revert to D nat. unless another # sign is added. It's a trap beginners can fall into.
Play C#, D#, E and D#
Points to remember:
The question is a but unclear, but the first note (right above the p, and below the 2) is a C Sharp - even though there is no sharp next to it, there is a C Sharp in the Key Signature.
The note after that is the D Sharp - here, the sharp is added to that note in particular, and not the key signature.
Just in case you're unaware, the "Sharp" notes are (usually) the black, smaller keys in a piano. The C Sharp is between the C and D white notes, and the D Sharp is between the D and E white notes.
This D# is probably because this piece modulates from one key to another, sometimes you get a change of key signature but often modulations just use accidentals to indicate this.
Most probably in this piece, there is a modulation from the original key (A major) to the dominant key (E Major). This is reiterated by the D# resolving stepwise up which indicates it operates like the leading tone.
The # sign means sharp. The sharp sign means to raise a note to the next higher note -- the one immediately to the right. Instead of playing the regular note, you'll play the next higher note instead.
Placing a # in front of a D note means to play D sharp, which is the black note immediately to the right of D on the piano.
Everything the other answers say about key signatures and sharps is correct. I merely added this answer because it seems that you (and your daughter), are unfamiliar with the term "sharp", so I wanted to explain that term to you.
Hope this helps!
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sharp did not “sound right” ( her words) when she played the song. Thank you all for the kind answers
– user237329
Sep 16 '18 at 12:22