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Major Scale on a Score

Lesson 5 from: Music Theory Essentials: Chords, Scales and Modes

Tomas George

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5. Major Scale on a Score

<b>In this lesson, you will see a major scale on a score.</b>
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Major Scale on a Score

OK. Now we're going to have a look at a one octave major scale in C major, ascending and descending. So basically going up and then going down. So we're starting on middle C here, which is just a line below the first line on the stuff here. And remember the pattern from before tt ST tt s. So tone tone semitone, tone tone tone semitone. So if we start on C, remember a tone up from here, we just count 212 will give us D which is D here, then a tone up from D 12 will give us E the semitone, remember tone tone semitone. So one will give us f the tone up from F 12 will give us G tone up from G, remember tone tone semitone, tone tone tone semitone. Well, give us a, another tone, give us B so it's A and B and then it's just a semi to from here, we'll give AC, so that's just one octave up in C major and then we feel the same but going down. So it's just ac major scale really simple. OK. Let's now have a look at a different scale F major. So it's the same pattern as before. It's quite similar t...

o C major. Apart from this note here, which is a B flat. Remember this sign here means a flat. So we have a B flat. So it's just tone tone semitone, tone tone tone semitone. So a tone up from F is G A tone up from G, there's a, a semitone from A will give us this one here, this B flat and then a tone up from here 12 will give us ac tone up again, will give us ad tone up from D will give us this E and then Semi Toone. Give us this F at the end. That's just an F major sending and descending skip. Remember it's the other way around for descending. So descending, the pattern will be semitone tone tone tone, semitone tone tone. But it's easier just to remember tone tone, semitone tone tone, tone, semitone descending is backwards. But that's another pattern that you don't really need to remember right now. Just remember TT ST TT S. So I thought I'd show you this on the score editor as well in case you're more comfortable with the score editor rather than the piano roll editor. I think it's a good idea to learn both. So I'd say it's important to use this piano roll editor for digital audio workstations like Ableton Live. However, I do think it's important to learn the score editor also, especially if you're working with maybe jazz musicians or classical musicians who are used to reading and working with sheet music. So thank you for watching this lecture just about working at a major scale and looking at it on the score.

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