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Summary: Learn exactly what a 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 G Flat Major Scale?

What I would talk about first is what a major scale is. A major scale is a group of 7 different pitches from the 12 available pitches of equal temperament found is Western music that are put together in a pattern to whole and half steps to create certain types of sound. Let's explore this further. Here is a major scale pattern, it includes whole step, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step, whole step, and then a half step back to the original note which right now we are talking about G flat. These are the different intervals or the distances between each of the 7 notes in the scale. Let's look at the piano to find out what a whole and a half step are. Starting on G flat if you went up 1 tone so there is no breaks in the notes that is a half step. 2 half steps make up a whole step starting on G flat going up to A flat. This is a whole step. Let's look back at the pattern once more. From the first note to the second note we have a whole step, the 2nd to the 3rd a whole step, 3rd to the 4th half step, 4th to the 5th whole step, 5th to the 6th whole step, 6 to the 7 whole step, and then a half step back to the tonic or the first note again.

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