MAJORSCALE

Major scale

The major scale or Ionian scale is one of the most commonly used scales. It is one of the diatonic scales. Like many musical scales it is made up of seven notes: the eighth duplicates the first at double its frequency so that it is called a higher octave of the same note .

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major scale

Noun

  1. One of the diatonic scales; a group of notes or musical pitches in a particular pattern, used to make melodies. The pattern for a major scale is:
    tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone.
In the key of C Major, this produces a scale with the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C.


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