Scales and Key Signatures

The note "A"

A, B, C#, D, E, F#, and G# are the notes of the A major scale.

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Practice playing them. Memorize the pattern steps.

When you are working with 7th chords it makes it minor, dominant, minor 7flat5, or diminished.

If I'm correct Eb instruments are a minor third above concert pitch instruments. This means go up 3 intervals and down a half step, or up 3 half steps if you prefer. This is transposing from concert to Eb.

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A Major. F#, C# and G#.

Well on C instrument, such as flutes and percussion, the F major scale is all naturals, except for B flat.

For alto saxophone, which mine is E flat, I'm pretty sure it's your d major scale which is just F and C sharp...hope that helps, unfortunately, I don't know what instrument you want to play F major in

The C natural scale in the 1st position is a common starting point. Starting on the 5th string, 3rd fret and going up to the 2nd string, 1st fret. C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C practice steady, even notes up and back down. Also these major scales- D, G, F

G# Maj - 6 sharps and 1 double sharp

G# Min - 5 sharps

The flat sign looks like a lowercase 'b' so you put the symbol in front of a note which you want to be lowered.

This is a real example: (♭♩)

There are two groups of tetrachords in a major scale with a whole step in between.

Philosophy would be a fantastic major, as well as linguistics. If you could do both of these as minors, you would be able to understand language at the microscopic level and understand literature even more deeply. It's what I'm doing.

The B major scale has 5 sharps: F#, C#, G#, D#, A#.

The second to last flat is the name of the major key

A major and F# minor each have 3 sharps.

d minor is a relative minor to f major therefor Bb is the only accidental:

D, E, F(♮), G, A, Bb, C(♮), D...

setting a temperament

Identifying any major key is simple: The key of any song is notated at the beginning of the piece with a number of sharps and flats. The sharps and flats are always listed in the same order. Flats: B,E,A,D,G,C,F Sharps are the same but in reverse Sharps: F,C,G,D,A,E,B the listing of sharps and flats will always go in that order. example: 4 flats listed will go B,E,A,D For flats the key is notated by the second to last flat listed. In the above example that Key would be the key of A. For a song with 4 sharps (F,C,G,D) the key would be 1/2 step up from the last noted Sharp. 1/2 step up from D makes this the key of D#

In a major scale, these 3rd, 5th, and 7th steps are equal to a major third, a perfect fifth, and a major seventh, respectively. If you were to lower these (by half a step, or one semitone), you would get a minor third, a diminished fifth, and a minor seventh, respectively.

There are 36 minor scales.

The letter that the word 'flat' begins with (F).

B♯, Cx, D♯, E♯, Fx, G♯, Ax, B♯.

x means double-sharp.

It's an extremely rare scale. It's what you call an "imaginary key signature", one that is there in theory, but isn't all that practical -- seeing as you could just compose in F major. However...

E# Major is a scale with 3 sharps (E, A, & B) and 4 double sharps (F, G, C, & D) in the key signature.

[ The double sharp symbol loosely resembles a lowercase "x". ]

So, the scale goes as follows:

E sharp (E #), F double sharp (F x), G double sharp (G x), A sharp (A #), B sharp (B #), C double sharp (C x), D double sharp (D x), E sharp (E #)

I hope this helped.