Penis

Natural Major Scale

WWHWWWH

Natural Minor Scale

WHWWHWW

Harmonic Minor

WHWWH(W+H)H

7th scale degree gets sharp.

Melodic Minor (Ascending)

Sharp the 6th and 7th Scale degree.

Melodic Minor (Descending)

Natural minor scale cancel out 6th and 7th sharps.

Octatonic Scale

Alternating whole and half steps

Pentatonic Scale

5 notes

Uses note 1, 2, 3, 5, 6

Takes out 4 and 7 so it creates tension

How to Find Relative

Name of the scale -\> go up 3 half steps

Naming Key Signatures

Sharps: Look at the last sharp and go up a half step

Flat: Look at 2nd to last flat

Acronym for Modes

I

Don't

Particularly

Like

Modes

Anyways

Lol

Ionian

Any major scale

Dorian

\# the 6th scale degree

(based in minor)

Phyrigian

Flat the 2nd scale degree

(based in minor)

Lydian

\# the 4th scale degree

(based in major)

Mixolydian

Flat the 7th scale degree

(based in major)

Aeolian

Natural minor scale

Locrian

Scale degrees 7-7

(no altered pitches)

major

We don't use it

Simple 1-8

Anything inside of an octave

Compound 8+

Anything over an octave

Inverting Intervals

Make sure they always add up to 9

Basically everything is its opposite

C Instruments

Piano

Flute

Tuba

Trombone

Bass Euphonium

Mallet Percussion

Oboe

B Flat Instruments

Trumpets

Clarinets

Tenor Sax

Soprano Sax

E Flat Instruments

Alto Sax

Bari Sax

Alto Clarinet

A Persons Part

What is written on staff

"Concert Pitch"

The actual sound

(when it doesn't give you concert Pitch you go the opposite direction of what you normally go)

Getting to Concert Pitch

C Inst.: Already concert pitch

B flat inst.: Go 2 half steps up

E flat inst.: Go 3 half steps down

F inst.: Go up a perfect 5th or down a perfect 4th

Every Major Scale Follows This Pattern

1) Tonic - Major

2) Supertonic - Minor

3) Mediant - Minor

4) Subdominant - Major

5) Dominant - Major

6) Submediant - Minor

7) Leading Tone - Diminished

Minor Scales Follow This Pattern

1) Tonic - Minor

2) Supertonic - Diminished

3) Mediant - Major

4) Subdominant - Minor

5) Dominant - Minor

6) Submediant - Major

7) Leading Tone - Major

1st Inversion

3rd scale degree is in bass

2nd Inversion

5th Scale Degree is in bass

Root Position Superscript

(5/3)

1st Inversion Superscript

6/(3)

2nd Inversion Superscript

6/4

How to Label Inversions

1) Note Inventory

2) Write in 3rds (if you can)

3) What is the bass?

4) Identify the inversion

5) Label

Order of 7th Scale

1) Minor

2) diminished

3) Major

4) MInor

5) Minor

6) Major

7) Major

Root Position for 7th's

7(5/3)

1st Inversion (7th's)

6/5/(3)

2nd Inversion (7th's)

(6)/4/3

3rd Inversion (7th's)

(6)/4/2

Inversion Hotline

(664)- 765- 4342

(664)

6 - 1st Inversion

64 - 2nd Inversion

765

7 - Root

65 - 1st Inver.

4342

43 - 2nd Inver.