1. Introduction to Music scales
Instructor Anthony Johnson
Course Music
Introduction to Music scales

2. Music: Scales
Scales
As stated earlier music generally does not use a total continuous range of musical sounds. It draws only on a limited number of fixed pitches.
This assembly of pitches in a collection is called a scale. Basically a scale is a pool of pitches made available to composers and musicians for making music.
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3. Music: Scales Parts of a Scale The Interval
Any 2 pitches will have a certain distance, or difference in highness or lowness of pitch.
Theses differences are called intervals.
An interval is the distance between two notes. Intervals are always counted from the lower note to the higher one, with the lower note being counted as one. Intervals come in different qualities and size. If the notes are sounded successively, it is a melodic interval. If sounded simultaneously, then it is a harmonic interval.
     The smallest interval used in Western music is the half step. A visual representation of a half step would be the distance between a consecutive white and black note on the piano. There are two exceptions to this rule, as two natural half steps occur between the notes E and F, and B and C.
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4. Music: Scales
     Whole Step: The distance between two consecutive white or black keys.
It is made up of two half steps.
Half Step: Also known as semitones this is the distance between any 2
successive notes on the chromatic scale.
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5. Music: Scales
Intervals come in various sizes: Unisons, Seconds, Thirds, Fourths, Fifths, Sixths, and Sevenths.
2nds, 3rds, 6ths, and 7ths can be found as Major and Minor. Unisons, 4ths, 5ths, and Octaves are Perfect.
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6. Music: Scales The Octave (means: “eight span”)
When pitches on the piano are played in succession 1after another from low to high or visa versa. You will eventually duplicate the starting pitch at a higher level, thus you have the octave.
When we divide octave segments into smaller intervals theses are called scales.
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7. Music: Scales Diatonic Scales
In music theory, a diatonic scale is a seven note, octave-repeating musical scale comprising five whole steps and two half steps for each octave, in which the two half steps are separated from each other by either two or three whole steps. This pattern ensures that, in a diatonic scale spanning more than one octave, all the half steps are maximally separated from each other .
This is the scale we use most commonly in our Western music.
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8. Music: Scales Chromatic Scale
In music theory, The chromatic scale consists of 12 notes each a half step apart. It is from the chromatic scale that every other scale or chord in most Western music is derived. On the piano/keyboard when you play all the black and white keys of an octave in an ascending or descending order you are playing a chromatic scale.
Once again this is a scale made up of whole and half steps.
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9. Questions & Discussion
The smallest identifiable step idea is called?
Half Step
What are the 2 different types of scales used in Western Music?
Chromatic & Diatonic
What do we call the distance between 2 different notes ?
Intervals
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What is the other term for eight span?
octave
An assembly of pitches in a collection of steps is called?
A scale