In this video you will learn how to read this.
To understand how pitches are organized
in music you have to know what pitches
to use in a piece of music.
If you organize the pitches in an ascending
order you will have what is called a scale.
In this video I explain how to
make the most popular scale which is the
major scale.
The major scale is one of
the diatonic scales which have one and
only one note with each letter name.
A major scale entails a series of half
steps and whole steps.
The pattern of a major scale is whole
step whole step half step
then whole step whole step whole step half step.
Let us use a C major.
C major uses all of the white keys on the keyboard.
A whole step from C is D
since there is a black key between the white keys.
Whole step to E, half step F since there is no black
key between the white keys.  Then whole
step to G whole step to A whole step to
B and then half step to C to round out
the scale and end the note we began.
This pattern of whole steps and half steps
in the major scale can be moved to
any start note.
Let us start on E.
To have a whole step we have to use F sharp.
Another whole step brings us to G sharp
A half step is A natural. Now the next three whole steps
are B natural, C sharp and D sharp.
And a half step which brings us back to E.
Let us use a scale that uses flats.
The G flat scale.
Starting on G flat the two
whole steps are A flat and B flat.
The half step has to be C flat since a major
scale can have one and only one note
with each letter name.
The three whole steps are D flat E flat and F.
And the half-step brings us back to G flat
And here is what you have learned today.
Keep practicing and I will see you in
the next video.
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