Melody and reading music
The keyboard: sharps and flats
White and black keys in a fixed pattern of twos and threes. A sharp makes a note a semitone higher, a flat a semitone lower.
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Why
Why are the black keys on a piano split into groups of two and three, and not simply every other key?
There is a black key between most white keys, but not in two places: between E and F, and between B and C. That is how the groups of two and three appear.
That pattern is a map. If you know it, you can find any note on any keyboard, even in the dark.
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