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Summary: Learn exactly what a D major scale is from an expert flutist in this free video on musical instruments and music theory.

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Kiely Griffin Kiely Griffin is a third-year music management and jazz flute student at the Hartt School of Music in West Hartford, CT. She has previously served as vice pre... read more

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What is a D Major Scale?

A major scale is a collection of 7 different pitches from the 12 notes of even temperament is western music. These pitches are put together in a pattern of whole and half steps. Let's look at the major scale pattern to understand this further. Whole and half steps are intervals between 2 notes in the temperament of western music. For a major scale this is the pattern. Between the 1st and 2nd note of the scale is a whole step. 2nd and 3rd note whole step. 3rd and 4th note half step. 4th and 5th note whole step. 5th and 6th notes whole step. 6th and 7th notes whole step and the 7th notes back to the 1st note again or the root is a half step. Let's look at the piano to understand what whole and half steps are better. The key of D starting on D going up to the next available pitch is a half step this distance is a half step. 2 half steps make a whole step is a whole step. In playing the major scale we have to follow a order in whole and half steps in order to get the sound that has arrived from a major scale. Let's look at the pattern one more time between the 1st and 2nd note whole step. 2nd and 3rd note whole step. 3rd and 4th half step. 4th and 5th whole. 5th and 6th whole. 6th and 7th whole and 7th and back to the 1st note of the key is a half step.

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