What is the difference between B flat and a sharp?
Thereof, what is the difference between a flat and a sharp?
It is very simple. Sharp means to go up a half step, while flat means to go down a half step. Up means moving to the right on your piano keyboard while down means moving to the left. A half step simply means the distance between a key (black or white) on your piano and the key that is next to it.
Just so, are sharps higher than flats?
In music, sharp, dièse (from French), or diesis (from Greek) means higher in pitch. More specifically, in musical notation, sharp means "higher in pitch by one semitone (half step)". Sharp is the opposite of flat, which is a lowering 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'. For instance, the music below has a key signature with three flats (indicating either E♭ major or C minor) and the note, D♭, has a flat accidental.