Just as re-ordering step-sizes makes for unique staircases and climbing adventures, so re-ordering intervals makes for unique scales and musical experiences.
A Horse-friendly Hotel with Chromatic Staircases. As you can see in Figure 25 above, a pentatonic staircase is too steep, and the steps are too uneven.
Ex-Marshal McDillon had to ban horses from all the hotels in Dodge City because so many horses got hurt on the pentatonic staircases. Marshal Puma has decided to keep the ban in place, despite her falling out with Ex-Marshal McDillon and her affinity for cheap plot twists in Classic Westerns. If you're looking for a horse-friendly hotel, try the Fairmont Royal York, a luxury hotel in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Since the late s, the Fairmont Royal York has welcomed strangers from the West, especially strangers from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, to ride on up to the registration desk on their horses. According to some reports, this policy also applies to chuckwagon drivers with teams of horses. The hotel even has specially-constructed smooth chromatic staircases to make it easy for guests on horseback to get around inside the hotel.
The blues scale Figure 26 below is almost the same as the minor pentatonic scale, except that it has an extra note in the middle. The addition of that extra note, sometimes called a blue note , gives this scale a considerably different sound from the minor pentatonic.
Figure 27 below shows a scale used in the Middle East. Try playing it on your guitar or piano. Compare this Arabic scale with the familiar major diatonic scale all the white keys on the piano, beginning with C. The Arabic scale has four semitone intervals, including two consecutive semitones as you pass through the tonic note. These dissonances give the scale an exotic, other-worldly sound to Western ears. You can play this scale starting with any note on your guitar or piano.
As usual, just make sure you preserve the order of the intervals , like this:. Normally, an equal-interval scale sounds like rubbish. But here's an Indian equal-interval scale that sounds musical Figure Keyboard players are at a disadvantage to guitarists when it comes to memorising scales. The latter only have to memorise one shape for a scale, then move that shape up the neck to play it in a different key, whereas on the keyboard, playing the same scale up just one semitone requires having to remember a completely different pattern of keys.
Rather than spending hours practising them until muscle memory takes over, you can remember simple number sequences - known as intervallic formulae - to help you work scales out on the fly, based on counting the number of semitones between each note in the scale. Scoring a dream sequence? Use a whole tone scale! Whole tone scales are hexatonic, which means that they contain six notes, all separated by intervals of a whole tone - hence you get the name. With a formula of , wherever you start from on the keyboard, there are only two possible versions, and they work really well over augmented and dominant 7b5 chords.
Well, relative scales are two scales - one major, the other minor - that contain the same notes but start on different notes. A scale is a group of notes that are arranged by ascending or descending order of pitch. In an ascending scale, each note is higher in pitch than the last one, and in a descending scale, each note is lower in pitch than the last one.
So you can think of a scale climbing the rungs of the ladder which is represented by the stave. For more information check out my detailed guide to scale degree names here. Major scales are defined by their combination of semitones and tones whole steps and half steps :. You can use this formula of whole steps and half steps to form a major scale starting on any note.
For a more in-depth looking at forming major scales check out this post where we go through all 12 major scales. Back Free versions Previous versions. Back Forum Join our street team. Back Ear training. Back What is ear training? Music theory. Back Understanding basic music theory What is sight-singing? Music Technology.
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