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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour Brought to you by musical magicians They had to

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stop using the phrase presto change o because well no

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one could keep up with their tricks Seriously look out

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fast They're going all right Here's our question what's the

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harmonic equivalent of a flat and hear potential aims are

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g sharp Be sharp b flat She fine All right

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Well let's start by visualising a keyboard and through some

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fancy shmoop magic her to see the resident shmoop magician

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which our cfo told us was a bad idea But

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look how cool he looks We could make a keyboard

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appear on stage Presto Change o c we got that

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All right that's Why we keep an official magician on

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payroll and take that c f o all right And

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now for some academic magic what's an in harmonic equivalent

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A note that is n harmonically equivalent to another will

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sound the same one played but will be named differently

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And like if you compare us trying to sing the

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same song is beyonce or whitney and i will always

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love you Well the notes may be somewhat the same

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Pitch somewhat but you might label our performance is just

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a little differently as in bad so which note is

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the same as a flat but labeled differently Well if

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we take a look at our keyboard and find a

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flat and take a look at all of our options

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we can see that a flat is in harmonically equivalent

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to g sharp it's the same key They sound the

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same They look the same when you plunk him out

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on a piano but they're named differently That means a

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is our answer and because we find and harmonic equivalents

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unequivocally fun well let's figure out the equivalents for the

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rest of our possible answers Be sharp is an harmonically

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equivalent to see b flat is in harmonically equivalent to

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a sharp and g flat is in harmonically equivalent f

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sharp And there you go just like magic Well maybe

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we should've hired a lawyer instead of a magician Sorry

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