Introduction To The Musical Scale.
Basic Stuff. What is a scale in music? Intuitive idea: If you have lived long enough on planet earth, chances are that you already know what a musical scale is. Remember "Do re mi fa so la ti" from the music lessons you were forced to take? Yes. That is a musical scale. Meanwhile try to recall how after the note 'ti', there would always come a 'do' which is the same note as the first 'do' we started with, but it is always is higher in pitch than the 'do' which we started with. Chances are that you already know that the interval (distance) between the first 'do' we started with and the higher 'do' we ended on, is called a musical octave. Hence, likewise the distance/interval between any two consecutive 'do's is an octave. Rough definition: Hence, a scale can be defined as a collection of notes divided within an octave. Now, by some miracle of nature, it just so happens that our division of an octave into 7 unique notes, n...