Hi, Cindy.

The Bone Doctor here with a prescription:

Sit down and really look at your keyboard. It is just like the
manuals of an organ.

Concider this. Music has twelve tones that can be analyzed thusly:

Starting at middle C, a key to the left of two Black keys in the
middle of the keyboard, we will call this note number 1.

C 1
C# or Db -2
D 2
D# or Eb -3
E 3
F 4
F# or Gb -5
G 5
G# or Ab -6
A 6
A# or Bb -7
B 7

Still working in C, one can construct chords like this:

Major C E G or 1 3 5
Minor C Eb G or 1 -3 5
Half Diminished C E Gb or 1 3 -5
Full Diminished C Eb Gb or 1 -3 -5
Suspended Forth C F G or 1 4 5
Sixth C E G A or 1 3 5 6
Dominant Seventh C E G Bb or 1 3 5 -7
Major Seventh C E G B or 1 3 5 7

Each of thesxe chords can be played with any of the intervals on the
bottom of the chord so that we get inversions of that chord:

1 3 5 is First Inversion
3 5 1 is Second Inversion
5 1 3 is Third Inversion

This holds true for the Minor, Diminished, Fourth, Sixth and Seventh.

The notes of the key of C are a good example to gleen the overall
pattern of a major scale from. It is this scale that is used to
determine intervals, or note numbers, with.

Thus the 12 musical notes, being a half tone apart, form the
following pattern as evidenced by the keys themselves:

C to D or 1 to 2, Whole Tone, White key to the left of two Black keys
Black key between
D to E or 2 to 3, Whole Tone
Black key between
E to F or 3 to 4, Half Tone, White key to the left of three Black keys
F to G or 4 to 5, Whole Tone
Black key between
G to A or 5 to 6, Whole Tone
Black key between
A to B or 6 to 7, Whole Tone
Black key between
B to C or 7 to 8, Half Tone, the pattern repeats and the 8 is 1

What is interesting here is, if you move to the key of D, the
intervals are the same but on different keys. Just keep in mind the
Whole Tone/Half Tone pattern that makes the major scale. A Half Tone
is the key next to the one you are on, irregardless of color. A Whole
Tone will be two keys away.

Tell me how you did after some experimenting.

God bless and happy playing.

The Bone Doctor
House Organist and Webmaster
Walnut Hill Productions
Maryville, Tennessee
http://www.theatreorgans.com/walnuthill/