The Key Of C Major – The Basics The key of C major is the easiest key to get to know. This article deals with it’s principles, key signature, chords, relative minor and modes. It also contains links to related articles on this site. First the key signature. This bit is the easiest bit. When […]
Before you begin take a look at how a major scale is constructed Look at the C-major scale C D E F G A B C Find the sixth note. (The submediant). That note is ‘A’. Now write a scale, starting on the ‘A‘,and proceed upwards for one octave. A B C D E F […]
The major scale is constructed like this: TONE, TONE, SEMITONE, TONE, TONE, TONE, SEMITONE So if we use Cmajor as an example, C D E F G A B C C – D TONE D – E TONE E – F SEMITONE F – G TONE G – A TONE A – B TONE B […]
Continued form part 2… In the previous article we looked at the Major 2nd. In the following article we’re going to concentrate on the Major 2nd and touch on the Minor 2nd. As with the previous article screen shots will be used to explain how to play each interval and then at the end I’ll […]
Continued form part 1… In the previous article I stated that in order to understand intervals and their importance we need to listen to them. In order to create a better feeling for the sound we also need to correlate that with playing. Below are pictures and tab describing how to play the major 2nd […]