Q: umm. 12.25.19  1:27 am  there is b-sharp. you can cleverly teach all you want, but SEVERAL of my favorite preludes and fugues in Bach's well tempered clavier have countless b-sharps
A: to explain to a beginner all the way up to the land of B# and Cb would probably be impossible. as it is, my paragraph was probably too long and they probably went to sleep during it. it's like, first you'd have to explain why B and C are only a half step apart instead of a whole step. that's probably weird enough for someone to get their head around. the B# issue would probably only become relevant after a person has fully absorbed the B-C half step issue. but to continue, which i don't know why i would because you must already know, but to continue, sometimes on paper you will see B# which is actually the same note as C. so the next question a person might ask is "why the heck would you ever say B# instead of C" which is a question i'm sure i have answered several times before, such as