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Topic: Difference between 2 C's on a piano (Read 1555 times)

linglingwannabe

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Difference between 2 C's on a piano

on: April 01, 2020, 01:50:58 AM

I'm a guitarist and I just started learning the piano. I want to understand what's the technical difference between, say, the C played on different tiles.
In guitar, if you jump 12 frets, you jump an octave. Is it the same principle?

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perfect_pitch

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Re: Difference between 2 C's on a piano

Reply #1 on: April 01, 2020, 09:09:40 AM

Nope... there are no frets on a piano...

(Sorry, I had to

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Yes, every 12 semitones higher will result in an octave higher. Remember, that the distance from one note to the next nearest (white OR black) is a semitone. Think of it like a picture, the white C note in one octave will be placed in the same position between the black notes on octave higher or lower.