Post by shawn on Aug 21, 2002 17:23:20 GMT -5
:)Let's start out with the notes of the Musical Alphabet and progress through. 
If you know your alphabet, you can know what the notes are of the musical alphabet...
Here they are:
A B C D E F A G
(There's more in between other than that, but that's for later...)
As you can see it goes all the way to G and stops. Where do you think that it goes from there
Your right!! It goes back to the A.
So in reality, it can go infinetly...
...A B C D E F G A B C D E F G A B C D E F G A B C D E F G...
But in order to hear the notes going up and down, you might have to have superhuman powers!!!
The other notes that I was telling you about helps to make the Chromatic Scale. The Chromatic scale is made from 12 possible notes in Western Music (Our styles of music).
The whole chromatic scale is:
A Bb B C C# D Eb E F F# G Ab
(note: b=flat #=sharp So you would say B flat and C sharp)
That would be just like play your guitar on the low E string starting on the 5th fret and going one fret up all the way to the 16th fret.
Right now, that's a good amount of stuff to do...
But I will also tell you about enharmonics while I'm at it.
Enharmonics are "the same note, different name." This means that a note can have another name other than itself.
Just check this out:
A Bb/A# B/Cb C C#/Db D Eb/D# E/Fb F F#/Gb G Ab/G#
It's a little confusing, but you'll catch on. I add more later when I get more time!!!;D
OK, So we left off with the notes of the musical alphabet. I will now get into the Major Scale.
The Major scale is probably the most important of all scales in music. This is because it is probably the most used of them all.
The "formula" to a major scale can be explained in steps- which are also those 12 notes, one by one.
So here's the "formula" WWH W WWH
tetrachord^ ^same tetrachord
The First 3 steps are called a tetrachord, it makes it easier to remember, and I'll explain here in a little bit.
So, the C major Scale would be
C D E F G A B C
w w h w w w h
Do you see??? We'll that's the explaination of theory of the Major Scale, I'll do more later.
A good book to get if you don't comprehend all of this is The Jazz Theory Book by Mark Levine. It's very good to explaining this stuff.... Goobye for now
If you know your alphabet, you can know what the notes are of the musical alphabet...
Here they are:
A B C D E F A G
(There's more in between other than that, but that's for later...)
As you can see it goes all the way to G and stops. Where do you think that it goes from there
Your right!! It goes back to the A.
So in reality, it can go infinetly...
...A B C D E F G A B C D E F G A B C D E F G A B C D E F G...
But in order to hear the notes going up and down, you might have to have superhuman powers!!!
The other notes that I was telling you about helps to make the Chromatic Scale. The Chromatic scale is made from 12 possible notes in Western Music (Our styles of music).
The whole chromatic scale is:
A Bb B C C# D Eb E F F# G Ab
(note: b=flat #=sharp So you would say B flat and C sharp)
That would be just like play your guitar on the low E string starting on the 5th fret and going one fret up all the way to the 16th fret.
Right now, that's a good amount of stuff to do...
But I will also tell you about enharmonics while I'm at it.
Enharmonics are "the same note, different name." This means that a note can have another name other than itself.
Just check this out:
A Bb/A# B/Cb C C#/Db D Eb/D# E/Fb F F#/Gb G Ab/G#
It's a little confusing, but you'll catch on. I add more later when I get more time!!!;D
OK, So we left off with the notes of the musical alphabet. I will now get into the Major Scale.
The Major scale is probably the most important of all scales in music. This is because it is probably the most used of them all.
The "formula" to a major scale can be explained in steps- which are also those 12 notes, one by one.
So here's the "formula" WWH W WWH
tetrachord^ ^same tetrachord
The First 3 steps are called a tetrachord, it makes it easier to remember, and I'll explain here in a little bit.
So, the C major Scale would be
C D E F G A B C
w w h w w w h
Do you see??? We'll that's the explaination of theory of the Major Scale, I'll do more later.
A good book to get if you don't comprehend all of this is The Jazz Theory Book by Mark Levine. It's very good to explaining this stuff.... Goobye for now