Music scale

Music scale in flat and sharp.

In this article we will tell you about music scale. There are many scales in music one of these scale is the “chromatic scale”. All tones in the chromatic scale are ½ step apart. The chromatic scale consist of all the white and black keys in an octave from key c to c. you know what an octave is, if not you can click the link octave to get it clear. Below is a clear example of an octave using the keyboard as an illustration.

We are using the keyboard as an example in this article since it is one of the instrument with clear diagram. We are going to use the diatonic scale because it is the common scale used by musicians. It is also called the major scale in the keyboard or in music as well.

The diatonic scale uses solfa known as; do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do in ascending order while do, ti, la, so, fa, mi, re, do in descending order to describe changes in pitch of the keyboard. These solfas are also called music notes. These solfas also known as music notes have minors. Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do are known as the majors while, di, mor, fi, zi, tor are known as the minors. Which means we have seven major notes and five minor notes which makes a total of twelve notes in music. Now it time we add them together in the proper full arrangement.

The musical notes are do, di, re, mo, mi, fa, fi, so, zi, la, tor, ti, do in ascending order while, do, ti, tor, la, zi, so, fi, fa, mi, or, re, di, do in descending order.

I know you might have an idea on how many keys we have in music, you might have come across your choir/music master or minister saying sing on key c, or key f or c^#(c sharp) etc. I know this must have been very familiar to your ears. But I have to throw more light on it.

Keys in Music

Music has twelve keys, which comprises of both flat (^b) and sharp (^#). Since this is not a keyboard class, I will explain it to you in the simplest way possible.

The keys in music uses alphabets which begins from letter A to G. but according to music, they are not arrange as A to Z, but begins from C to B. This is the musical arrangement of these alphabets. They are letter C. D. E. F.G. A and B. you can see it started from C to G then come back to letter A before B, which is the last key. you might have taken note that counting this alphabet you got only seven letters. Does that mean music have only seven keys? NO! This is where the confusion comes in. but don’t be confused, after this article everything
will be clear to you.

Earlier I told you of the musical keys comprising of flats and sharps, this is where they come in.Some of the key from C to B (according to musical notes) have sharps and flats. Now let’slist  them including the flats and sharps. They are as followed: key C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A# and B. now we have twelve complete keys, but someone is still confuse, where is the click continue….

But someone is confused,where are the flats (b)? Don’t worry we just list them in ascending order. In descending order you uses flats instead of sharp. This is the list in descending order; they are as followed: key B. B^b. A, A^b, G, G^b, F, E, E^b, D, D^band C. I know you are confused but check the image below and study it.

 

keys in ascending and descending order

You discovered in the ascending order the not B and E does not have a sharp (#). That is because they don’t have a minor note after them. Also you discover in the descending order the note F and C does not have a flat (^b). Same reason applies. Earlier on this article we discussed about minors. You can read on our article “Beginner keyboard lessons”for more detailed information, we’ve gone so far don’t give up. Here we come to what we have been looking for “Music Scale in flat (^b) and sharp (#)”.

We will use the aid of images as illustration for you to properly understand this. Here are all the keys in music starting from key C to key B.

Key C

Key C#

Key D

Key D#

Key E

Key F

Key F#

Key G

Key G#

Key A

Key A#

Key B

You can Read this article for clear understanding...........................Music Scale in flat (^b) and sharp (#)

     

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Music,What is Music?

Music

This post will briefly explain what music is and the various part of music. It will brief you the definition of music: what is music? Basics of music you should know.

The oxford universal dictionary defined music as: “That one of the fine arts which is concerned with the combination of sounds with a view to beauty of form and the expression of thought or feeling “(little and onions 1965, 1300).

The medium of music is sound, some of the element of music are pitch, (melody and harmony), rhythm, tempo etc.

There is ongoing controversy about how to define music. According to Rev. Emmanuel Akintola Olabisi (Baptist music minister) in one of his book titled “Guides to effective singing, correcting common singing problems, 2011.

Music has many definitions depending on the angle you see it from. Some people say it is a unit of life, it is the best way of communicating to people, it is a language etc. in an article titled: THE BASIC PIANO METHODOLOGY by Temu Oluku, states that, notes are like words. The more we learn, the greater the vocabulary we have available to express what God is saying, the article also states that music stands for the combination of sounds that are agreeable to the ear.

In my own definition: music is defined as the combination of organized sound that is pleasant to the ears. The connectionof different sounds put together makes it music. Whenever sound is not pleasant to the ear it becomes NOISE. So you can see that every part

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