![]() Try to memorize each key signature up through 5 sharps and 5 flats. Don’t worry about the minor scales for now. Here’s a list of all the major (and their relative minor scales). You know what key you are playing in based on the key signature at the beginning of the music. ![]() ![]() Brilliant idea to get a prodigy up in the morning.) Young Mozart would jump out of bed, run down stairs, and play the tonic. (Legend has it Mozart’s father would play scales in the morning ending on the leading tone. You’ll be itching to play the tonic to feel complete. Try playing a scale and stop on the leading tone. Why do we call the seventh scale degree a leading tone? Because it wants to lead to tonic again. Scale degrees and scale names are the same for major and minor keys. The most important ones are tonic, dominant, and the leading tone. Now F# and G are half steps.ĭon't worry about remembering the name for each scale degree. But E and F are no longer half steps because you had to sharp that F. In the key of G, you haven’t changed anything with B or C so they are still half steps. Every time you add one sharp, you are changing these two sets of half steps. Think of the Key of C as your vanilla scale with your basic BC and EF half steps. Start on a G, follow your half step whole step pattern for the major scale and you will end up with F#.Īll scales have two sets of half steps. So if you’ve ever wondered why the Key of G major has one sharp-F#, this is why. If you really want to give yourself a workout, try doing this for the more complicated scales like A#. Now compare your scale to an E major scale in your scale book. ![]() Without looking at a scale book and without thinking about your key signature for E, begin writing the scale just by the order of whole and half steps. Notate an E (the first line on the treble staff). They have the same relationship between the notes. That’s the order of half and whole steps for all major scales which is why major scales sound the same. ![]()
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