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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 minor scale – it is the same!
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. Starting on C, we make the Ionian scale: This, of course, is identical to the scale of C major. The semitones are marked with a bracket.
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 has a “technical name“. These names are often used when we talk about chords, for example the “dominant chord” is the chord built on the 5th ...
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; Rewriting in a New Time Signature; Adding Rests; Tonic Triads – Major and Minor; Intervals; Triplets; Musical Terms; Grade 2 Music Theory Test (ABRSM) Grade 3. The ...
Musical Devices; Syncopation; Musical Terms; Grade 3. Triplets; Major Scales: D and B Flat; Melodic Minor Scales; Minor Scales: Gm and Bm; Key Signatures and Key; Chords and Cadences; Chord Progressions; Compound Time Signatures; Rests; Beaming and Grouping (Grade 3) Spotting Errors; Composition (Trinity Grade 3) Musical Terms; Grade 4. Double ...
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, none of the notes need to be raised. Here are the minor scales of G# and Bb. G# minor harmonic: G# minor melodic: Bb minor harmonic: Bb minor melodic:
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 can say that D is the 2nd degree of the scale of C major. We always use the ascending scale to work out the degrees of a scale.
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 is the minor pentatonic scale starting on A#. This scale actually uses exactly the same notes as the major pentatonic scale, but the tonic note is different.
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 to find a few notes which are part of a chromatic scale, first you need to scan the piece quickly, looking for sections where a few notes are written ...
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 notes in the melody also exist in the C major scale.