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Look on a piano and start on the while key just to the left of the two black keys. That is C and C major has no sharps or flats so you can play up the scale without using black keys You see that there is no black key between the E & F or the B & C. That's the half step.
For the three versions of minor scales:
pure (natural)- whwwhw
harmonic- whwwwh
melodic- whw1.5hh
so the lower tetrachord in minor is whw
The complete pattern is Whole-Whole-Half-Whole-Whole-Whole-Half.
Any major scale follows the same pattern. After the first note is a whole step, then another whole step, then a half step, whole step, whole step, whole step, half step; therefore, the fourth note of a scale is two and a half steps away from the first note.
The major scale is made of whole and half steps. WWHWWWH
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W=whole step H= half step A major scale is W-W-H-W-W-W-H
The complete pattern is Whole-Whole-Half-Whole-Whole-Whole-Half.
Whole Whole Half Whole Whole Whole Half
The complete pattern is Whole-Whole-Half-Whole-Whole-Whole-Half.
The correct pattern for a major scale is WWh , WWWh .
The correct pattern for a major scale is WWh , WWWh .
The correct pattern for a major scale is WWh , WWWh .
W W W h
The G Major scale is as follows: G-A-B-C-D-E-F#-G It follows the typical major scale pattern of intervals: whole-whole-half-whole-whole-whole-half
Starting with the root of the scale, the pattern is whole-step, whole-step, half-step, whole-step, whole-step, whole-step, half-step.
A major scale goes by the pattern, Whole-step, whole-step, half-step, whole-whole-whole-half. in C major, that's just all natural notes but in any other key that pattern causes sharps and flats.
Any major scale follows the same pattern. After the first note is a whole step, then another whole step, then a half step, whole step, whole step, whole step, half step; therefore, the fourth note of a scale is two and a half steps away from the first note.
There are two groups of tetrachords in a major scale with a whole step in between.