Scales & Melody

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How do you create a Major scale?

Tone, Tone, Semitone, Tone, Tone, Tone, Semitone

How do you create a natural minor scale?

Tone, Semitone, Tone, Tone, Semitone, Tone, Tone

What is a relative minor scale?

(Of a major scale) The key which has the same key signature but a different tonic

How do you find the relative minor or any key signature?

Go down 3 semitones from the starting note of the key

How do you create a harmonic minor scale?

• Raise the 7^th note by a semitone

• Tone, Semitone, Tone, Tone, Semitone, Tone + Semitone, Semitone

What is a major pentatonic scale?

• A scale that contains the 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 5^th, and 6^th notes of the major scale

• Tone, Tone, Tone + Semitone, Tone, Tone + Semitone

What is a minor pentatonic scale?

• A scale that contains the 1^st, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, and 7^th notes of the natural minor scale

• Tone + Semitone, Tone, Tone, Tone + Semitone, Tone

What is sequence?

• When you repeat a melody at a higher or lower pitch.

• It will repeat it as an exact transposition, meaning that the rhythms and intervals between the notes will stay exactly the same

What is repetition?

When you repeat a short melodic or rhythmic idea, or a note pitch or duration.

What is an arch form?

Where a melody rises and falls to form the shape of an arch

What is retrograde?

Writing a previously heard melody backwards

What is inversion?

When the melody is “flipped upside down” to create a new melodic line.