To show you a easy way to come up with other
major scales, if you don't have any literature
or books or information on different scales,
a general way to come up with them on your
own, is by using, what I know as, the step
method or step patterns. Like I said before,
all scales consist of seven notes, eight including
the octave. The step pattern is using whole
steps and half steps. What a whole step is,
if you notice down here on my keyboard, say
if we're doing C major, first note will be
C. If you notice between C and D, we have
a black key. When you're moving from C to
D, that's two steps, including the black key,
that will be, what we know, as a whole step.
From the one and two, of the C major scale,
is a whole step. To the two and the three,
is another whole step because we have a black
key here. Between three and four is a half
step, no key in the middle, it's a half step.
Always remember three and four, is your half
step. Four and five, whole step, five and
six, is another whole step, six to seven,
is another whole step because of the black
keys, and seven and eight, is a half step,
no key in the middle. Eight to make the octave,
is a half step. Always remember between three
and four, seven and eight, is your half steps.
I'll show you in another scale, that includes
the black keys, so you can see how it all
corresponds. Let's pick G major. Let's start
on G, as the one, whole step to A, is the
two, then another whole step to B, as the
three. Notice, no key in the middle so it's
a half step, to C, which is the fourth. Three
and four are your half step, now to the fifth
is another whole step, your D, to the sixth,
another whole step, your E, and then to your
seventh is another whole step. You see we
have a key here in the middle but G major
goes to F sharp, so that's another whole step
and then your eighth is G again. See there's
no key, it just drops right there, so it's
a half step. So you can use that method and
apply it to any scale and you can come up
with your own scales by using that pattern.
Three and four, seven and eight is your half
steps, the rest are whole steps.
