![]() ![]() ![]() Note that some sharps and some flats, and some double-sharps and double-flats, are white keys. "Double-sharp" and "double-flat" are a half-step further in each case. ![]() "Sharp" means the note a half-step higher (to the right) "flat," a half-step lower (to the left). Possible variants are "sharp" and "flat," and occasionally "double-sharp" and "double-flat." The white keys are given the unadorned note names. Rule 2: Every major scale has one and only one note of each "note name," and they occur in (cyclic) alphabetic order. To remember the structure of a major scale, play an ascending C major scale by playing any C and then the other white keys moving upward, ending on the next C. "Middle C" is the C nearest the middle of the keyboard. "To the right" is called "higher" because it's higher in pitch.) D is the white key to the right of C, while E and F are the next two white keys. C is any white key just to the left of a group of two black keys. (To find C, notice that black keys are grouped in twos and threes. The interval E to F, by contrast, is a half-step, because no other keys intervene. From C to the black key is 1/2 from the black key to D, another 1/2. Thus, C to D (see next paragraph for how to locate these keys) is a whole step, because there's a black key in between. A half-step is the interval between any two immediately adjacent notes, whether white key to black, or white to white. Major-scale intervals are either "half-steps" (1/2) or "whole steps" (1). A "descending" major scale is the same set of notes but in the opposite order.Īn "interval" is the distance between two notes. Rule 1: The intervals in an ascending major scale, in order, are 1, 1, 1/2, 1, 1, 1, 1/2.Īn "ascending" scale is one that moves from left to right on the keyboard. (A major scale is the kind explored in the song, "Doe, a Deer.") I give two rules here that let you play a "major scale" starting on any note on the piano keyboard, and let you name the notes correctly, given the name of the starting note. Naming the notes of musical scales (October 12, 2000) James Boyk Home | Book & articles by James Boyk Rules for Naming the Notes of Musical Scales, by James Boyk Music Lab Home | ![]()
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