How Do You Read Accidentals In Sheet Music?
” Hi! I’m Katie and I’m here on behalf of expertvillage.com to talk with you about accidentals. It’s also important to be aware of accidentals that occur within the piece of music, so in this piece of example the key signature contains no sharps or flats but that does not mean that a composer can’t throw in sharps or flats. So here for example we see a sharp a written sharp, here we see a written flat, now an important rule to remember is that any sharp of flat that appears in a measure here for example A-flat carries through the measure. Let’s look down here for a better example, looking at this measure the notes between two vertical lines we see an A-sharp appear, as soon as that first A-sharp appears we know that every other A that appears in the measure will also be a sharp, so this would actually be an A-sharp and an A-sharp even though the sharp is only written the first time. Now if for example a composer does not want a sharp or flat to carry to the measure he or she might writ
