List of Musical Scales - My Music Theory
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 …
The Musical Modes - My Music Theory
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 succession. …
Technical Names of Scale Degrees - My Music Theory
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 scale also …
The Evolution of Music Notation - My Music Theory
Degrees of the Scale; Key Signatures and Major Keys; Key Signatures and Minor Keys; Questions on Scales; Time Signatures; Adding Bar Lines; Working out the Time Signature; …
Major Scales and Scale Degrees - My Music Theory
The first and last notes in any scale are called the “tonic”, “keynote” or “doh”. The other notes can be referred to by number. For example, in C major, the second note in the scale is D, so we …
Scales and Keys with 5 Sharps/Flats - My Music Theory
In a melodic minor ascending scale, both the 6th and 7th degrees of the scale (submediant and leading note) are raised by a semitone (half step). But in a melodic minor descending scale, …
How to Write Scales - My Music Theory
This also happens to be a scale using only the black notes of the piano. Another very common version is the minor pentatonic scale. The pattern of tones and semitones is: 3S-T-3S-T. Here …
The Keynote or Doh - My Music Theory
The scale of C major is simply all the notes from one C up to the next C, using the white notes on the piano: Look again at the “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” tune above, and notice how all the …
Chromatic Scales - My Music Theory
Finding Part of a Chromatic Scale in a Musical Score In the Trinity or ABRSM grade 4 exam you might be asked to pick out a part of a chromatic scale within a musical score. If you are asked …
The Whole Tone Scale - My Music Theory
The Whole Tone Scale. The whole-tone scale is a six-note scale, where each note is a tone (whole step) higher/lower than the next. There are two varieties: Since the interval between …