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Month: January 2018

The Major scale

January 22, 2018January 22, 2018 / Jeremy Hughes / Leave a comment

This article uses Fretspace to explore the Major scale and its modes. The Major Pentatonic scale can be regarded as a simplified version of the full Major scale, which has seven notes and is the foundation of western musical harmony. Alternatively, the Major scale can be regarded as an extension of the Major Pentatonic scale. Chords, … Continue reading The Major scale

Blues scales

January 9, 2018January 9, 2018 / Jeremy Hughes / Leave a comment

This article uses Fretspace  to explore blues scales. These are pentatonic scales that have been extended by adding one or more chromatic notes between the existing notes. Chromatic (in this context)  means that a note is outside the key signature. In the key of C, the white notes on a piano are diatonic (scale) notes and … Continue reading Blues scales

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