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Scale degrees
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Each note of a scale has a number: its degree.
Count from the first note. In C major, C is 1, D is 2, E is 3, and so on up to B, which is 7.
Count along: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 1 again.
The eighth note is C again, an octave up, so it is 1 again.
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In C major, which note is degree 5?
Numbers work from any starting note.
Degree 5 is always the fifth note of the scale, whatever the first note is. One name for one job, in every scale.
Play degrees 1, 3 and 5 of C major.
That is C, E and G. Then try 1, 2, 3, 2, 1.
In C major, F is which degree?
Degree 1 has its own name: the tonic.
It is the note the scale starts from and is named after. C is the tonic of C major.
This climbs from degree 1. Which degree does it stop on?
You can number a scale.
What you learned
- The notes of a scale are numbered 1 to 7: their degrees.
- The eighth note is the first one again, an octave higher.
- Degree 1 is the tonic, the note the scale is named after.
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