MUSIC THEORY LESSON # 3

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                  MUSIC THEORY*      LESSON # 3   


    TOPIC: : MAJOR SCALES

*   Major Scales are the succession of notes forming the Solphege tones we know as Doh, Re, Mi, Fa ,La, Ti , Doh , Its like a musical staircase  that can move up and down the staff at the composers L

* Major scales are the bright sounding scales ,That consist of Tone and Semitone steps  as follows:   ( T=TONE   , S=SEMITONE )          T,T,S,TTTS    


 DEGREES  OF A MAJOR SCALE       in  C major  (as in all Major keys )

         1th     OR          C  is called the   TONIC

          2th    OR          D  is called the   SUPERTONIC

          3th    OR          E  is called the    MEDIANT

          4th    OR          F  is called the     SUBDOMINANT

          5th    OR         G  is called the     DOMINANT

          6th    OR         A  is called the     SUBMEDIANT

          7th    OR         B  is called the     LEADING NOT

          8th    OR         C  is called the    TONIC

     

                                             MAJOR KEY SIGNATURES

There are 14 major Scales , but 13 with sharps and flats . Their Accidentals  are placed at the beginning of a Staff to indicate that the performer should be careful to use the accidentals for the sharpened or flattened notes in that key  .

 * Its important to remember the order of Sharps and flats in writing  major scales 

 



                                                                                                            

                             Playing the Sharp Major Scales

                              
 
                                                         

                                         There are Also 7 Flat major Scales  not on the above video

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                                    The Circle Of 5ths

To help us remember which Sharp or Flat goes where ....We use a Circle of 5ths  



   









      

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