Now, between E and Gb, there’s a ‘gap’ because we miss the letter F. In the same way, you can show that you have to use C# instead of Db.ĭon’t leave a gap between 2 consecutive notes: Again, imagine I would have used Gb instead of F# in the D major scale, so: D E Gb G … In this case, the letter G is used twice (even if the first has a flat sign), so this is against our first rule. The first 4 notes of the scale would then have been: D E Gb G … Don’t leave a ‘gap’ between 2 consecutive notesĭon’t use the same letter for 2 consecutive notes: Imagine that in the D major scale, I would have used Gb instead of F#.Don’t use the same letter for 2 consecutive notes.Now, why did I call the 3 rd and 7 th notes F# and C# and not Gb and Db? Well, this is because we have to apply one of the following 2 rules (you can choose which rule to apply, since one rule implies automatically the other): So, the notes of the D major scale are: D E F# G A B C# D Let’s apply our ‘formula’ (W W H W W W H) to find the scale of D major. Let me illustrate this with some examples: The D major scale So we can use this structure to find out all the other major scales. That means that the only difference between all major scales is their root (starting note). Since all major scales sound the same way, this structure is valid for all major scales. So the intervals between the consecutive notes of the C major scale are: Let’s now look at the intervals between its consisting notes: So, the notes of the C major scale are: C D E F G A B C (this looks as if the scale has 8 notes, but since the C is played twice, the scale consists of 7 different notes). For piano players, the C major scale is the easiest major scale because it starts on C and consists of all the white notes up to the next C.
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