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Scales and Key Signatures
This category is about major, minor and other musical scales, and keys and key signatures in musical notation. All questions should relate to forms and construction of scales, and key signatures within these forms.
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What is the first note of a major or minor scale?
The first note of a major or minor scale is called the tonic note. For example: for C major, the first note (or tonic note) is C; for a minor, the first note (or tonic note) is a.
How do you show the position of b flat on a staff?
In the treble clef, the note of b-flat can be found on the third (or middle) line on the staff. In the bass clef, it can be found on top of the top line, and on the first line.
Do scales end and start on the same note?
The same note name, yes. They could possibly be different pitches.
Is Fur Elise in a major key or a minor key?
it changes a lot. it starts in a minor key, but of course it all depends on the arpeggios that is played (the left hand bit) i think it then changes into a major key.
That is an interesting question, the first keyboard instruments were hydraulis - which was a water organ that had the seven modern natural notes that we know today but soon composers discovered that in between the first and second, second and third, fourth and fifth, fifth and sixth and sixth and seventh degrees of the scale - extra notes 'foreign' to the scale could be added and those notes are now represented by the modern-day black accidental keys - when starting major scales on different notes (such as G major or F major). Each black key can have two names based on what the bordering white keys are in modern tuning. For example the black key between F and G can be called 'F-sharp' which means that it is an F note which has been raised by a semitone - and at the same time it can be called 'G-flat' which means it is a G note which has been lowered by a semitone. The name of a black key (flat or sharp) is dictated by the major scale and which letter names have already been used - for example a F major scale would go like this F, G, A, Bb, C, D, E, F (not F, G, A, A♯, C, D, E, F). Flats and sharps - the accidentals - probably didn't exist until about the Baroque era, when harpsichords we're invented and I'd say the natural keys are older.
What does c melodic minor look like?
The scale of c minor, in melodic form, has the following notes:
Ascending - C - D - Eâ™ - F - G - Aâ™ - Bâ™® - C
Descending - C - Bâ™ - Aâ™ - G - F - Eâ™ - D - C
Where are the half steps in any major scale?
Hi,
Any major scale has this pattern:
Tone, Tone, Semitone, Tone Tone Tone Semitone.
Tones are 'steps' and semitones are 'half - steps'.
Keep up the music playing!
How do you create 'Major' and 'Minor' triads?
A triad consists of three notes: the tonic (or the first note of the scale), the mediant (or the third note of the scale), and the dominant (or the fifth note of the scale).
For a major triad, the interval between the first and third note is a major third, and the interval between the first and fifth note is a perfect fifth.
For a minor triad, the interval between the first and third note is a minor third, and the interval between the first and fifth is a perfect fifth.
How many pentatonic scales are there?
There are five major and five minor pentatonic scales, for 10 in total. If using the scales to play guitar, there are five common patterns on the neck.
What is the Dominant in the C major scale?
The dominant note in any scale (major or minor) is the 5th (V) note of the scale.
I - Tonic
II - Supertonic
III - Mediant
IV - Sub-Dominant
V - Dominant
VI - Sub-mediant
VII - Leading tone or leading note
In the case of C major, the dominant note is G.
The dominant of C is G.
How many notes does a minor scale have?
8, the same as a major scale. (The last note name is the same as the first - one octave above.)
Is C major the key note for do in Solfege?
Any note can be do especially when warming up but most people use c to start there warming up and then move half steps up the scale and each new note becoming a do
