List of Musical Scales Here is a complete list of the major, minor harmonic and minor melodic scales, in treble and bass clefs. If you need the natural minor scale – use the descending part of the melodic …

Technical names Each note of a scale can be given a number from 1-7. For example, in the key of C major, C=1st, D=2nd and so on. These are called the “degrees of the scale”. Each degree of the …

The C Major Scale Listen to this series of eight notes: This is a scale of C major. (A “scale” is any defined series of musical notes.) In the C major scale, both the first and the last notes are Cs- but …

What are the Music Modes? A mode is a 7-note scale built on a certain pattern of tones and semitones. The easiest way to work out the modes is to play a scale starting on each of the white notes in …

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Whare are musical scales? There are many types of musical scale. A scale is a series of notes which is fixed by a particular pattern of tones and semitones. Semitones are notes which are directly next to …

Ancient Greece. Pythagoras, while walking past an blacksmith’s workshop, is intrigued that the sounds made by the smiths’ hammers sound like tuneful musical notes. He goes home, crunches some …

The word “chromatic” actually means “colourful” – the scales are very colourful since they use ALL 12 different notes available in one octave, instead of just 7 of them! The scales you have studied up till …

The tonic is also the first (and last) note in a musical scale – it’s the starting and ending point. Here is the song “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” written out for you. Click the play button to sing along. The last …

Major Scales All scales have something in common; they have a defined pattern of tones and semitones. All major scales are made up with the following pattern, where T=tone and S=semitone: T …