The system of the sharp and flat goes with the key signature which is effective through the whole of the musical component be it major or minor keys except it is canceled by another key signature. Anytime a note has an accidental and is repeated in another octave still in the same measure, the accidental in this case is always repeated.Ī sharp mostly raise the pitch of a not and a flat, on the other hand, lowers it in sight-singing. The accidentals always work with all the repetition that can be found in the measure. The semitone is responsible for the raising or lowering of the note which can either have double sharps or flats in sight-singing. An accidental sign can be seen to raise or lower the note that comes after it from its normal pitch in the measure bar of the major scale. The sharp is indicated by the sign ‘#’, the flat with the sign ‘b’, and the natural with the sign ‘|’ as the signs can also be referred to as accidental. It is the representation of most of the notes in musical notation, like the sharp, the flat, or the natural. The accidental is a note of a pitch that is indicated by the most used key signature mostly in C major. The flat goes in sharp reversed form and it’s important to memorize the notes on circles 5th and 4th that way, it will be easier to identify the movement of flats that starts on ‘b’ and take a movement from 4th. The sharp object is not meant to be bent or start over again.

The object should be kept pointed away from you all the time. When working with sharp on C major, the sharp object is not meant to be used until it is time for its use. However, for the order of flat, it follows the reverse order of the sharp solfege which gives something like B -E – A- D- G- C- F. It usually takes the order: F – C – G – D – A – E – B. The order of sharps is referred to as mnemonic. Go up to the next line which will serve as the name of the key ‘do’- the sharp solfege. Anytime the key signature has the sharp note in the C major, the ‘Do’ can be found by locating the sharp farthest to the right. The sharp solfege is none other than the ‘Do’ note. Mostly when these notes are raised, the vowel sound changes to ‘ee’, and when they are lowered, the vowel sound changes to ‘ae’. In essence, when solfege notes are raised, they become sharps automatically, and when they are lowered, they are flats. The chromatic scale for these notes include:įor sharps- Do Di Re Ra Mi Fa Sol Si La Ti Doįor flats- Do Ra Re Me Mi Fa Se Sol Le La Te Ti Do. The solfege flats include Ti Ra Me Mi Se Le Te Ti which can also be represented as b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 b6 b7 b1. The solfege sharps include: Di Ri Fa Si Li Do Di which can also be represented thus #1 #2 #3 # 4#5 #6 #7. Wherever a ‘b’ is written, it means the measure for the note is flat THE SOLFEGE SHARPS AND FLATS

Wherever a# is written, it can mean the measure for the note is sharp.Ī flat on the other hand is when a note is to be lowered by half a step. A sharp occurs when a note is to be raised by a half step.

Chromatic solfege hand signs