3/7: Scales

Scale Patterns

Each scale pattern is unique in the distances between its notes.

There are 2 common ways to describe the distance of each note in a scale:

  1. Whole & Half-step method: distance of each note from its previous
  2. Intervals method: distance of each note from the Tonic

These 2 approaches will be covered in the next lessons.

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