Low C & High C Piano Guide Notes

What is the C note on piano?

Finding the note C on the piano isn’t difficult. You’ll notice that on a piano keyboard there are groups of three black keys and groups of two black keys. To find a C, locate any group of two black keys. Directly in between the two black keys is the note D. Since the white keys are arranged from left to right in alphabetical order from A to G and then repeating, the note C is the white key directly to the left of D.

How many C notes are on the piano? How do you move from the low C notes on piano to the high C notes on piano?

There are eight Cs on a standard 88 key piano. The lowest C is the C furthest to the left of the keyboard and the highest C is the C furthest to the right of the keyboard. If you begin by playing C’s on the left and move toward the right, you’ll be moving from low C notes to high C notes.

Which C is middle C?

Middle C is the C that is right in the middle of the piano, which is how it gets its name. Normally you can find it by locating the brand name of the piano and then finding the C closest to it. This doesn’t always work on cheaper keyboards that don’t have the 88 standard key layout of a full keyboard. In the case of these cheaper keyboards, it depends on the manufacturer and how they’ve chosen to layout the keyboard.

Why is it called “middle C”?

Middle C is called that due to its placement on the piano keyboard. It also is directly in the middle of the grand staff in the space between the treble staff and bass staff.

What are the benefits of using guide notes while playing piano?

Guide notes are certain notes written on a grand staff that a student can memorize. Knowing these notes and where they are located on the keyboard makes learning to read music easier. Once you know a guide note and where it is on the piano, you can use it to locate other notes near it on the piano in the correct octave. Use our Grand Staff Guide Note Guide to start learning them now!

Hello and welcome back. I'm Joseph Hoffman, and in this lesson we're going to learn our final two guide notes on the grand staff.
Once you know these, that's it! You'll know all the grand staff guide notes.
Let's get started at the grand staff.
Let's review the guide notes we've already learned.
We start with the famous middle C. Can you play that on your piano?
And then three spaces down we get bass C,
and three spaces up we get treble C.
So we get three C's, all guide notes.
Notice it kind of makes a symmetrical pattern. Three spaces up, three spaces down.
Now we have a couple other guide notes in the bass staff between the two lines. Bass F
and the bottom line I call ground G. Let's find those on your piano.
Bass F is the nearest F below middle C, and ground G way down here,
then we also have treble G right here,
and flag F way up here.
Now these guide notes cover most of the staff, but what if you want a really high note?
Then you'll need to add ledger lines, and it's helpful to have another guide note up here for when you're reading the ledger lines.
And it so happens if you count it up from flag F, G, A on the line, B in the space, C,
we get to high C
way up here on the piano.
Two octaves above middle C. Here's middle C, treble C, high C, middle C, treble C, high C. It's two ledger lines up.
Now what if we wanted to go down?
We can add two ledger lines here.
And let's count down from G.
G steps down to F, steps down to E, steps down to D, steps down to C.
So notice how this symmetrical pattern continues.
We can go up three spaces to get to treble C,
and then two more ledger lines to get way up to high C.
Going down three spaces down to get to bass C,
and then two ledger lines below the staff get us all the way down to low C.
The great thing about these two new guide notes is they'll make reading really high and really low notes
on ledger lines a lot easier to read.
For example, let's say you see this note in some music.
Well, you know that this line here is low C, a step below C is B.
So that would be low B.
Here on your piano.
What about this note?
Kind of looks like a middle C doesn't it, but don't be fooled. One ledger line
doesn't mean middle C. Middle C is above the bass staff or below the treble staff,
but below the bass staff is a totally different note.
How do I know? Well, I know that this note
is a low C, so if I just count up from there, C steps up to D, steps up to E.
This note which again is kind of a fake twin brother of middle C because it looks a lot like it but it's not
like it. It's an E.
Low E right here on the piano. A skip above low C.
We can do the same thing up here.
Doesn't that look like middle C, but it's not.
Can you fig ...