Can you tell me a little about the super-important chromatic, major, and minor scales?
Chromatic scales are basically a series of half steps going up or down. Major scales have a diatonic pattern in which there are half steps between the 3 and 4 notes and the 7 and 8 notes. The pattern in W W H W W W H, where W represents the whole steps, and the H represents the half steps. You must remember though, that there are natural half steps between B and C, and E and F. This is useful information to know when building a scale. Minor scales start on the sixth tone of the relative major scale. There are three types of minor scales: natural, harmonic, and melodic. The natural minor scale has a normal minor pattern: W H W W H W W. The harmonic minor scale raises the seventh tone a half step. The melodic minor scale raises the 6th and 7th tones up a half step while ascending the scale, and brings them back down while descending the scale. All taken from my knowledge. 🙂 I’m knowledgeable about scales.
I shamelessly copied and pasted this from another answer of mine. ———————- Here’s a little thing called the chromatic scale. It’s simply all twelve notes used in music. The slashes indicate alternate names for those notes (notes are also called tones): A – A#/Bb – B – C – C#/Db – D – D#/Eb – E – F – F#/Gb – G – G#/Ab – A (and so on…) Memorize this and you’ll find music theory much easier to understand. The letters used are A to G; all the letters have a sharp except B and E. Read that last sentence a few times and never forget it. Technically there are times when E# and B# (a.k.a. F and C) are used, but not that often. The distance between two notes (eg, G to G#, Bb to B, E to F) is called a half-step (also called a semitone). Obviously twice that interval (eg, G to A, B to C#, Db to Eb) is a whole-step (also called a whole tone). The b is called a flat, meaning one half-step lower, while the # is called a sharp, meaning one-half-step higher. —————————
