The Keyboard Terms

The distance between two notes

• Half Step

• Whole Step

• Interval

• Tetrachord

Enharmonic

• Two names for the same note

• Lowers a note a half step

• a scale progressing by half steps

• cancels a flat or sharp

Whole Step

• Lowers a note a half step

• Raises a note a half step

• B-C & E-F

• Two half steps

A four note pattern consisting of whole step, whole step, half step is called what?

Two tetrachords joined by a whole step --- W W H W W W H

• Chromatic Scale

• Enharmonic

• Major Scale

• Natural Half Step

Flat

• Lowers a note by a half step

• Raises a note by a half step

• Cancels a flat or sharp

Sharp

• Lowers a note by a half step

• Raises a note by a half step

• Cancels a flat or sharp

Natural

• Lowers a note by a half step

• Raises a note by a half step

• Cancels a flat or sharp

What is an example of a natural half step?

• B-C

• C-D

• F-G

• E-F

What is the smallest possible interval?

• An interval of 4th

• An interval of 3rd

• An interval of 2nd

• An interval of a half step