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    Major Scale and Key Signature

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    The major scale consists of seven notes in alphabetical order with the pattern of whole steps and half steps between each note. It naturally occurs on the white keys of a piano starting on C. Key signatures use sharps or flats at the beginning of the staff to indicate which notes are permanently raised or lowered throughout a piece. The order of sharps and flats in key signatures follows a specific pattern. Enharmonic scales have the same notes but different names.

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    Major Scale and Key Signature

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    The major scale consists of seven notes in alphabetical order with the pattern of whole steps and half steps between each note. It naturally occurs on the white keys of a piano starting on C. Key signatures use sharps or flats at the beginning of the staff to indicate which notes are permanently raised or lowered throughout a piece. The order of sharps and flats in key signatures follows a specific pattern. Enharmonic scales have the same notes but different names.

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    The major scale consists of seven notes in alphabetical order with the pattern of whole steps and half steps between each note. It naturally occurs on the white keys of a piano starting on C. Key signatures use sharps or flats at the beginning of the staff to indicate which notes are permanently raised or lowered throughout a piece. The order of sharps and flats in key signatures follows a specific pattern. Enharmonic scales have the same notes but different names.

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    Major Scale and Key Signature

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    The major scale consists of seven notes in alphabetical order with the pattern of whole steps and half steps between each note. It naturally occurs on the white keys of a piano starting on C. Key signatures use sharps or flats at the beginning of the staff to indicate which notes are permanently raised or lowered throughout a piece. The order of sharps and flats in key signatures follows a specific pattern. Enharmonic scales have the same notes but different names.

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    Major scale and Key Signature

    Major scale
    • The major scale is one of the most commonly used musical scales,
    especially in Western music. Like many musical scales, it is made up
    of seven notes: the eighth duplicates the first at double its frequency
    so that it is called a higher octave of the same note.
    • TWO important characteristics:
    1. It consists of all the seven letters in alphabetical order and ending
    on the same letter as the one started on , such as CDEFDABC or
    EFGABCDE;
    2. It contains specific pattern on whole and half steps WHOLE,
    WHOLE, half, WHOLE, WHOLE, WHOLE, half.

    • This pattern happens naturally on the white keys of the keyboard


    when the sequence begins and ends with c.
    Pitches on a Keyboard
    • The easiest way to understand pitches is to look at
    a piano keyboard.
    • Here is a section of the piano keys, with some
    common pitches highlighted:
    Key Signatures

    • Often, due to the sound that composers and


    songwriters are after, certain notes need to stay sharp
    or flat for an entire work, or a section of a work.
    • Instead of writing the accidentals next to every single
    note, writers use a key signature.
    • A key signature is a set of one or more sharps/flats
    placed at the beginning of the staff; all of the notes
    with those NAMES (not just on those lines & spaces!)
    stay sharp/flat unless a natural sign is used.
    Key Signature Example
    • Here is a sample key signature:

    • In the beginning of the song, it is placed after the clef


    but before the time signature.
    • Remember, all of the notes with these NAMES are
    now flat (B-E-A), even if they occur on different
    lines/spaces/ledger lines.
    • Now do you see the importance of the natural sign?
    Key Signature Example
    KEY SIGNATURE CHART
    RECOGNIZING KEY SIGNATURE WITH SHARPS

    • When trying to identify the major key of a key signature consisting of


    sharps, there are two steps: (1) look at the last sharp (from left to
    right) and (2) name the note a half step higher than that sharp. The
    name of the note is the name of the key.

    • Step 1—The last sharp is E#. Step 2—The note a half step higher than
    E# is F#; therefore, this is the key signature for the key of F#.
    RECOGNIZING KEY SIGNATURE WITH FLATS
    • When trying to identify the major key of a key signature consisting of
    flats there is only one step: (1) look at the second-to-the-last flat (still
    from left to right). The name of that flat is the name of the key.

    Step 1—The second-to-the-last is Cb. Therefore, this is the key


    signature for key of Cb major.
    Key Changes During a Song
    • To change the mood at certain points, music writers
    will often change the key signature in the middle of a
    work. When that happens, a double bar line is used,
    and naturals are used if necessary.
    • Here is an (extreme) example:
    The Order of Sharps and Flats in Key
    Signatures

    • The order of sharps in the sharp key signatures


    appear in the following order: F | C | G | D | A | E |
    B

    • and the order of flats in the flat key signatures is


    backward of order of sharps: B | E | A | D | G | C |
    F
    ENHARMONIC SCALES
    • The circle of fifths also display the enharmonic
    scales. Enharmonic scales are scales that have the
    same pitches but have different note names.
    Enharmonic Major scales:

    • B Major Scale: B | C♯ | D♯ | E | F♯ | G♯ | A♯ | B
    C flat Scale: C♭ | D♭ | E♭ | F♭ | G♭ | A♭ | B♭ | C♭
    • F sharp Major Scale: F♯ | G♯ | A♯ | B | C♯ | D♯ | E♯ | F♯
    G flat Major Scale: G♭ | A♭ | B♭ | C♭ | D♭ | E♭ | F | G♭
    • C sharp Major Scale: C♯ | D♯ | E♯ | F♯ | G♯ | A♯ | B♯ |
    C♯
    D flat Major Scale: D♭ | E♭ | F | G♭ | A♭ | B♭ | C | D♭
    • Enharmonic Minor scales:
    • G Sharp Minor Scale: G♯ | A♯ | B | C♯ | D♯ | E | F♯ |
    G♯
    A Flat Minor Scale: A♭ | B♭ | C♭ | D♭ | E♭ | F♭ | G♭ |
    A♭
    • D Sharp Minor Scale: D♯ | E♯ | F♯ | G♯ | A♯ | B | C♯ |
    D♯
    E Flat Minor Scale: E♭ | F | G♭ | A♭ | B♭ | C♭ | D♭ | E♭
    • A Sharp Minor Scale: A♯ | B♯ | C♯ | D♯ | E♯ | F♯ | G♯ |
    A♯
    B Flat Minor Scale: B♭ | C | D♭ | E♭ | F | G♭ | A♭ | B♭

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