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Summary: Learn how to play octaves in an E flat major scale on the flute 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
We have now learned all the notes from the E flat major scale. Let's review the scale one more time. This is a scale of E flat that we have learned in one octave. A octave is a group of notes from one E flat off to the next. You can see how we have learned this octave. For more advance players you can learn the scale in other octave because there is multiple E flats. Any distance between any 2 is a octave. So there the major scale can be played between E flats in any of the notes available to us. Here is a example of a second octave of a E flat scale. We also learned in the scale that the altered notes is B flat, E flat and A flat. This makes up the key signature of E flat major. So when you see this key signature you know to play a E flat major scale and those are the groups of notes that go along with it. I will now play some thing in E flat major. Here is a example of second octave. You can see it has a different range.