What is this note

[ThatDenimExpert]

I am learning to play the keyboard, completely new to it. I know this symbol is meant to be a , but I don’t understand why there’s a line going through it?

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The line is like a little extension to the original stave (the five lines above). So that note is a C.

It’s middle C on a piano / keyboard.
it has a line going through it because it’s below the standard 5 line music stave.

Middle c!

The line is showing that it is a note on the next line down (c) - to differentiate between that and d, which wouldn’t be on a line. (Please excuse rambly non- technical terms, not a musician)

That note is C. There are lots of notes that sit below the stave (the 5 lines) and they often need to have mini lines either going through them or sitting above them so that we can work out how far below the stave they are (and therefore which note they are).

Middle C neither sits on the treble or bass clefs so has its own stave line

It's a C an octive (8 notes) lower than a middle C

So notes that sit on the lines are E, G, B, D, F
between the lines from the sitting below the bottom line D, F, A, C, E

Actually it .might be middle C!

This may help.

Buy yourself a adult beginner’s piano or keyboard book OP.
Something like Alfred’s Basic Adult Piano Course will explain all the basic music theory like what notes correspond to what keys.
www.amazon.co.uk/Alfreds-Basic-Adult-Piano-Course/dp/0882846167/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=3GQA7DQ4F0SS8&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.4QjmtA_GEjOTWhK3XFTuPUMBGNV8s1JaanNndd6cvbVUSG_tRe5nW5ZxvhbRqa8YrOD6OPUtjSjv_7b9N-wcz5KVdCkQn_3kERdqZ3aqCMl1FJMmNA2iXbXea7uJxRdRUCT33NgCTxd97DSDE0_Nm4hnPGTSh1caL4Xav285Ir-3EEGEzTyHJ_SAjqiRqdhmO-dZAWC6n7Z8u2sBu2B0Qg.eehFUoKfUpOyFVcH2ENQDLKIC_A5PsCZWnWQdVWmcyo&dib_tag=se&keywords=alfred+adult+piano+book+1&qid=1748370660&sprefix=alfred+adult+%2Caps%2C103&sr=8-1

I have a beginners keyboard book but I am very confused by it as it doesn’t tell me everything and it didn’t explain what the line was for but now I know. Do you have any recommendations for books for beginners

I always remember the notes in the gaps spelt out FACE, and then I used that to work out what other ones were!