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Start learning music theory for ABRSM Grade 1 with this presentation explaining what tones and semitones are. This is the fourth presentation of many in Learn music theory for ABRSM Grade 1. View this as a video (with my explanations): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkRuXMNqC18 More lessons and posts available in my blog: http://music.jslvtr.com This is part of an extensive video-course that covers all of ABRSM Grades 1 and 2, and is available here: https://www.udemy.com/music-theory-abrsm-1-2/?couponCode=YOUTUBE15
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Lesson 4 Tones and semitones
Learn music theory: ABRSM Grades 1&2
Learning objectives
• What a semitone is
• What a tone is
A piano keyboard
C D E F G A B C D
A piano keyboard
E F B C
Tones
C D
1 Semitone
Tones
C D
1 more Semitone
Tones
C D
Total!1 Tone
Tones
• Between any two notes that have a black note between them there is 1 Tone!
• What about those that don’t have a black note between them?
Semitones
E F
1 Semitone
Semitones
E F
Total!1 Semitone
Tones and semitones• The distance between two adjacent notes is a semitone
• It doesn’t matter if the notes are white-black or white-white
• So the distance between two white notes with no black note in between is 1 semitone, just as the distance between a white and a nearby black note is 1 semitone
• This is because they are adjacent (there is nothing in between)
We have seen
• A semitone is the distance between two adjacent (nearby) keys
• A tone is two semitones, usually the distance between two white notes (if they have a black note in between them)
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