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The pattern
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Measure each step of the C major scale.
From each note to the next is either a whole step or a half step.
Whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half.
The half steps fall between notes 3 and 4, E and F, and between notes 7 and 8, B and C.
Each half of the scale ends with a half step.
Listen to how the last note of each group leans in close.
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Where is the first half step of the scale?
This pattern of steps is what makes a scale major.
Start on any note and follow whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half. You get a major scale.
Walk the pattern from C, counting keys.
A whole step skips one key, a half step goes to the very next one. Black keys count too.
How many whole steps are in the pattern?
Your ear knows this pattern, even if you never counted it.
Change one step and the scale sounds wrong at once.
Listen. Does this scale follow the major pattern?
You know the pattern of the major scale.
What you learned
- The major scale goes whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half.
- In C major, the half steps are E–F and B–C.
- Follow the pattern from any note and you get a major scale.
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