Major scalessound “happy” and you may recognize them as the do-re-mi scale. These are the first scales you should learn. All major scales follow the same formula of whole and half steps:W-W-H-W-W-W-H.Half-steps are when two keys on the piano are right next to each other, whi...
Back To Basics: What Are Scales? For many musicians, the word “scale” is enough to bring back dark memories. Anybody who has ever taken piano lessons knows something about scales, and anybody who has stopped taking piano lessons probably does not remember them fondly. For those of us writ...
Practice, practice, practice: Playing the minor scales back-to-back will help you become more attuned to the different sounds of each scale. To become even better at identifying these scales, play the major and minor scales of a particular key in one set. Repeat these sets several times unt...
Notes –Can you name the notes on a piano? Intervals –Do you know what a major third and perfect fifth are? Scales/Keys –Do you know what a major scale is?Now that we’ve got that settled, let’s discuss what a chord is.
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The piano has been around for many years and has taken many forms – some of them big, some of them small, some of them electronic and some of them entirely acoustic. They all have certain things in common, they all have the same basic inner workings of hammers or strings, and they ...
What is an example of an interval in music? An example of an interval in music would be from the note C on the piano to eight notes above the first note which would be another note C. This interval is known as an octave because it has a space of eight notes between the two pitches...
All tones listed and number values are represented on a piano's white keys. Taking the same key of C, the interval from note C, labeled one, to note D, marked two, is known as a second because it involves two tones. The interval from note C to note E is from one to three and ...
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The main instruments of early jazz music would be the trumpet, trombone, saxophone, clarinet, and piano. Later jazz styles would include the drums and the electric guitar. What instruments are used in jazz? Instruments in jazz can be classified into two groups: rhythm instruments and horns. Rh...