Originally Posted by: AkiraSharp, flat, and natural signs always come before the note it's applied to.
If you were sight reading you'd want to know whether the note is sharp or flat (or neither) before you play the note, not after you've just played it.
It's only in "normal" writing (i.e. not on a stave) that you write the sign after the note.
Good point. I stand corrected when I said a there would never be a situation with it after the affected note...more precisely, never in standard notation. :)
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