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The C major scale
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A scale is a set of notes in order, low to high.
Most songs pick a few notes and keep coming back to them. The best-known set is the major scale.
Here are the white keys from C up to the next C.
Eight notes, and the last one is C again, an octave higher.
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This is the C major scale.
It starts and ends on C, and it uses only white keys: no sharps, no flats.
Play it yourself: every white key from C to C.
Go up one key at a time. Then come back down.
Listen. Is this the C major scale?
It uses each of the seven letters once.
C D E F G A B, then C again. Starting and ending on C is what makes it C major.
How many black keys does the C major scale use?
Inside it are the two half steps you found: E–F and B–C.
All the other neighbours are whole steps. That mix gives the scale its sound.
Where does the C major scale start and end?
You know the C major scale.
What you learned
- A scale is a set of notes in order, from low to high.
- The C major scale is the white keys from C up to the next C.
- It has no sharps or flats, and its half steps are E–F and B–C.
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