Chromatic Scale in Music Theory
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Chromatic Scale in Music Theory
Hey! I am Mark Black and I am here on expertvillage.com. I am here to talk to you about music theory and learning how to read music. Okay, the two last things we are going to talk about here is first of a chromatic scale from the Greek work chroma meaning color. So chromatic scale is a scale that moves by half steps, remember we talked about the half step being the smallest interval in Western Music, but we do not use littler notes. So if a scale moves by half steps the littlest note we have then it is every single note there is. I am just going to write one here for you and just I am going to arbitrarily start on an A and go up A sharp, each of these is a half step apart B, C ,C sharp, D, D sharp, E, F, F sharp, G, G sharp and another A. Now that is an octave from one A to the next A, octave. And you will notice, look there is a sharp between the A and the B, there is a sharp between the C and the D, there is a sharp between the D and E but there is no sharp between the E and F and between the B and the C, and if you saw the other early segments about half steps B and C, and E and F are the only notes that are half step apart as close as two notes can be without sharps or flats. So all the other notes between an A and a B there is a whole step between the C and the D there is a whole step. So that means there is a sound in between. This is a chromatic scale which is all the colors which in music is all the notes; all the notes that are possible. Try and understand that in music it is important to be able to correctly either write or understand chromatic scale.
Hey! I am Mark Black and I am here on expertvillage.com. I am here to talk to you about music theory and learning how to read music. Okay, the two last things we are going to talk about here is first of a chromatic scale from the Greek work chroma meaning color. So chromatic scale is a scale that moves by half steps, remember we talked about the half step being the smallest interval in Western Music, but we do not use littler notes. So if a scale moves by half steps the littlest note we have then it is every single note there is. I am just going to write one here for you and just I am going to arbitrarily start on an A and go up A sharp, each of these is a half step apart B, C ,C sharp, D, D sharp, E, F, F sharp, G, G sharp and another A. Now that is an octave from one A to the next A, octave. And you will notice, look there is a sharp between the A and the B, there is a sharp between the C and the D, there is a sharp between the D and E but there is no sharp between the E and F and between the B and the C, and if you saw the other early segments about half steps B and C, and E and F are the only notes that are half step apart as close as two notes can be without sharps or flats. So all the other notes between an A and a B there is a whole step between the C and the D there is a whole step. So that means there is a sound in between. This is a chromatic scale which is all the colors which in music is all the notes; all the notes that are possible. Try and understand that in music it is important to be able to correctly either write or understand chromatic scale.
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