#Major second notes how to

F-Ab is a 3rd, because you count F as '1st', and it's FGA. What you're calling a 'tritone' is a 'triad', a 3-note chord.) The missing step is an augmented 4th if the P4 is raised, or diminished 5th if the P5 is lowered. Interval quality: P m M m M P P m M m M P Here's the pattern within one octave ('octave', btw, comes from '8th'): Half-steps: | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some intervals are 'perfect' (unison, 4th, 5th, octave) usually only one size, while the others (2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th) each come in two sizes: 'major' = bigger, 'minor' = smaller. etc, which is an 'ordinal' count, an order) and half-steps (0, 1, 2, 3 etc, a 'cardinal' count, or quantity). Intervals are counted in two ways: letters (1st, 2nd, 3rd. Sure a minor 3rd has 3 half steps, but then I get confused cuz how do you count them?

#Major second notes how to

Methinks some historical gatekeeping but it could simply be humans tendency to over compmlicate things.Ĭongratus op you now can make every major and minor triad (chord with three notes), you know how to play any major or minor scale and all the modes.Įdited for a typo and to make the intro readable 😐 It's a stupidly archaic way of figuring stuff out and I hope we get to a place where music is more accessible and less academic because its based on very simple principles that have been obfuscated by its notation and (in some.aces) awful terminology. They are nothing more than a different starting place on the algorithm.Īs for whether it's a sharp or a flat. The algorithm that creates the scale (number of upwards / downwards steps of two and one) is the sameįor a minor s 2,1,2,2,1, 2,2 Same pattern different starting place.Īll the modes work like this. That's also every major scale that exists, just change the root note accordingly. To play down the scale at any point you use the same steps in the same order always a movement of either 1 or 2. Root (note the scale is named after) C Two steps up D Two steps up E 1 step up F Two steps up G Two steps up A Two steps up B One step up C

That gives you the ability to play every minor triad (triad is the name for a chord made of three notes).įor a major chord, just count up four from the root, then three from the second chord tone.įor a major scale, you can count the scale like this The same on a guitar, or electric bass etc.Įvery minor chord has a Root (the note the chord is named after) Then you count up three. That's a single note up or down on a piano. The smallest unit you can go up or down is 1. Instead of focusing on which named note you’re playing, try memorizing your scales by their interval patterns, then use this to figure out the notes.Įat training will also help- Earpeggio has some good lil intervals exercises you can do. The differences in interval qualities is what allows music to create tension and release, and any sort of movement in a melody. Root(Unison)- M2 -m3 -P4 -P5 -m6 -m7 - OctaveĪnd a minor scale takes the same degrees (1,3,5) but the minor 3rd is what gives it a minor feel.Īll music is made up of these intervals. The Major 6th and Major 7th also flatten and become a minor 6th and minor 7th, respectively. The Major 3rd shifts down half a step, becoming a Minor 3rd. A straight up Major chord is always made up of these three intervals.Ī natural minor scale on the other hand, only changes three notes in the pattern.

R(Unison)- M2 nd- M3rd - P4th -P5th -M6th- M7th- Octave.Ī Major chord would take the 1st (Root/Unison), the M3rd and the P5th. Here’s a usual major scale (M=major, m=min, p=perfect)