natural notes
No sharps, flats
Natural notes are the seven basic pitches in Western music—A, B, C, D, E, F, G—played without sharps or flats.
On a piano, these are the white keys.
The term distinguishes these unmodified tones from their raised or lowered variants: The melody uses only natural notes.
- white keysUnraised piano tones
- middle CPiano's central reference note
- CThird alphabet letter
- DFourth alphabetic symbol, capitalized
- EFifth alphabetic character
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