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What does ## mean? A double-sharp (##) is an accidental for a note that has two sharps. This means the original note is raised by two half-steps. In standard music notation the double-sharp symbol resembles a bold letter "x" but can also appear as ##.

The double flat (𝄫) lowers a note by a whole step, and looks like two flats glued together. Here is an example using double flats. Note that, like double sharp, or any accidentals, a double flat cancel all previous accidentals, and is cancelled by any accidentals.

Article Talk. In music, a double whole note (American), breve, or double note lasts two times as long as a whole note (or semibreve). It is the second-longest note value still in use in modern music notation.

It means that every note of that letter (in this case B) needs to be played a semitone lower than it normally is, as B natural originally, now Bb. That is - every note - in any octave - but it only displays one. On piano, B natural is a white key - Bb is the black key to its left.

Basically, up to 7 sharps can be combined in a key signature, but theoretically, 8 sharps or more can be combined, and these keys are called 'theoretical key'. In other words, double sharps can be included in the key signature. In intonation, sharp can also mean "slightly higher in pitch" (by some unspecified amount).

In this example, you can see the notes of the D Major scale written without a key signature. Next to it is the very same notes using the key signature for D Major - 2 sharps. That means every F and C you encounter in the music are to be played as F# and C#. All key signatures work the same way.

Flat notes are notes that sound a semitone lower than notes that appear on the lines and spaces of a musical staff. As an example, the note B is represented on the third line of the treble clef staff. The note B-flat is indicated with that same notehead with a ♭ symbol placed to the left of it.

So they're not like terribly. Difficult but we do have to get used to reading them. And get used to playing them.

And yet in double note playing we have to equalize strength and velocity of all the fingers. And this is what makes it hard to do. We often get very tangled. Up one finger seems to trip over the next.

8 beats One double whole note covers 8 beats, which means that it lasts as much as 2 whole notes or 4 half notes. As a result, the most frequent time signature used by ancient composers to host this note within their works was 4/2.

Article Talk. In music, flat (Italian bemolle for "soft B") means "lower in pitch". Flat is the opposite of sharp, which is a raising of pitch. In musical notation, flat means "lower in pitch by one semitone (half step)", notated using the symbol ♭ which is derived from a stylised lowercase 'b'.

So this is the purpose of a double sharp (and likewise a double flat). It occurs when we want to sharpen (or flatten) a note in a scale, but that note is already sharpened (or flattened) by the key signature. Using G# harmonic minor as an example: the natural minor consists of G#, A#, B, C#, D#, E and F#.