Today, we’re going to talk about scales. What’s scales, fish Scales, scales of the alligator, reptiles? Nope, we’re playing on the scales of the keyboard, Piano Scales. Scales are the basics of piano technique which is used in many conservatories and examination systems to help students trained the technique. So, today we’re going to talk about a very simple scale that is the Major Scale.
What is a Major Scale? First of all a Major Scale is a series of tones with this relationship for example, beginning on the C. [Demonstration]
Now, let’s look at that again. [Demonstration]
You would say, “Hey that’s, DO, RE, ME, FA, SO, LA, TE, DO.” Yes, you’re right and at the same time if we look at all the keys we have played all together, there are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight keys. The eight being also see the same as the first one. And in between all these keys there is actually a relationship. For example, if we call from one tone to here, there’s semitone; here two semitones make a whole tone then from here to here is the whole tone. A whole tone, a semitone which is the third to fourth note semitone, fourth to fifth as a whole tone, whole tone, whole tone and the seventh to eight is a semitone.
So, we know that from the third to fourth is a semitone. And from the seventh to eight is also a semitone. So, that is made in terms of a major scale.
Now if we move it to somewhere else say let’s begin on G. We have whole tone, whole tone, third to fourth is a semitone, whole tone again, whole tone again, whole tone again here. We travel half have to here. And then the last, the seventh to the eighth is a semitone. So, we have all this so a G major scale would go—[Demonstration]
All the notes we’ve found and of course we’re going to play it with one hand and now we have—[Demonstration]. So, this is the Major Scale.
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