![]() To author a tutorial or quiz, only written content is needed. If you or someone you know would like to author some of the tutorials, please let me know by sending a message to me via the feedback form. Here's how it looks on the keyboard: Authors Wanted Remember that B to C is a naturally occuring half step, so lowering the B to B flat makes the interval half step larger, which makes this interval a whole step. Here's how it looks on the keyboard: B flat to C Why? The distance from F to G is a whole step, but raising the F to F# makes the interval smaller, which turns it into a half step. If you look at a keyboard, you can see that there is a note in between these two notes. Why? Because it consists of two half steps. Remember that the naturally occuring half steps are between B & C and E & F. Here are a few examples, just to help the concept sink in. Typically, you would call the half step between C and D a C sharp if there is a C sharp in the key signature or a D flat if there is a D flat in the key signature. For example, A flat is the same pitch as G sharp, and C sharp is the same pitch as D flat. Several notes share the same pitch but have different names. The interval between G and A is a whole step because it consists of two half steps (G to A flat and A flat to A). If we lower the B to B flat, we make the interval larger by increasing the distance between the two notes by half step, which now makes the interval a whole step. The interval between B and C is also a naturally occuring half step. The distance between E and F# is now a whole step because it consists of two half steps (E to F and F to F#). The interval between E and F is a naturally occuring half step, but if we raised F to F#, we then make the distance further apart. Remember from the last lesson that accidentals raise or lower notes by half steps. In the key of C Major, those two half steps are between B & C and E & F. In a major scale, there are two naturally occuring half steps. Those are the two naturally occuring half steps in a major scale. The distance between the 3rd and 4th notes and the 7th and 8th notes are half steps. The distance between the first two notes in a Major scale is a whole step. All Major scales follow this exact pattern: W W H W W W H (whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half). ![]() Naturally Occuring Half StepsĮach note is a certain distance apart from the next, and they form a pattern that repeats. The distance from A to B, however, is a whole step because it consists of two half steps. The distance from B to C is a half step because no other notes fall between them. For now we are only considering Major scales. We'll discuss the difference between Major and minor scales, as well as other scales/modes, at a later time. ![]() This is a major scale in the key of C Major. The C Major scale starts from C and ends at C. Since we haven't learned key signatures yet, we'll relate them to the key of C Major, which has no sharps or flats. ![]() In this lesson, we will only learn about the half and whole step intervals. In addition, there are two Dorian Bebop scales, which includes either a major third or a major seventh interval and the hybrid Dorian Add 5.An interval is the distance between two notes. Relevant scales are Dorian b2 (flat second), Dorian #4 (sharp four) and Dorian b5 (flat five), which all are altered Dorian scales. See also harmonizing Dorian scales into chords. Many believe that Dorian melodies during that era expressed courage and manhood and were singed by young soldiers. The names were taken from regions or people, the latter is true about Dorian. The Dorian Scale emerged in the ancient Greece together with other scales such as Aeolian and Locrian. If you already know the Major scales, you can easier memorize the Dorian modes by compare their relative keys. The same notes can be found in different Major and Dorian scales: The scale in all keys (without note names) can be downloaded as a PDF-file. The Dorian scales in musical notes are available in the member area.
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