Most commonly, especially in the context of the common practice period, the notes of a scale will belong to a single key, thus providing material for or being used to conveniently represent part or all of a musical work including melody and/or harmony. Scales are ordered in pitch or pitch class, with their ordering providing a measure of musical distance. Scales are divided, based on the intervals between the notes they contain, into categories including diatonic, major, minor, and others, with a specific group of notes thus being described as a C-major scale, D-minor scale, etc.
There are many different types of scales. They are the backbone of music.
A major scale is a series of 8 consecutive notes that use the following pattern of half and whole steps:
Minor Scales come in three forms: Natural, Melodic, and Harmonic.
Natural Minor scales use the following pattern of half and whole steps:
Melodic Minor scales ascend and use the following pattern of half and whole steps. When descending, they do so in the natural minor form. Listen
Harmonic Minor scales use the following pattern of half and whole steps:
Chromatic Scales are made up entirely of half steps. When ascending, the scale uses sharps, when descending it uses flats.
Whole Tone Scales differ from the other scales because it only has 6 tones. It uses the following pattern:
A pentatonic Scale is a five-tone scale, which has its beginning in antiquity. There are traces of this scale in Oriental and American Indian music. This scale does not have a leading tone, which gives the scale it's unique sound. The scale has two forms. The first one uses the group of two black keys followed by three black keys. The pattern is as follows:
The second one used the group of three black keys followed by two black keys. The pattern is as follows:
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