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Scales Book
Scales Book
The major scale is made up of seven distinct notes, plus an eighth which duplicates the first an octave higher, and is classified as a diatonic scale.
Major Pentatonic
This is one of the most common anhemitonic pentatonic scales, which can be constructed in a number of different ways.
Minor
A minor scale in musical theory is a diatonic scale whose third scale degree is an interval of a minor third above the tonic.
Minor Pentatonic
The minor pentatonic scale is derived from the major pentatonic scale, and uses scale tones 1, 3, 4, 5, and 7 of the natural minor scale.
Harmonic Minor
The harmonic minor scale is the same as the natural minor but with a chromatically raised seventh degree.
Melodic Minor
Blues
The scale that is most commonly referred to as "the blues scale" is derived from the minor pentatonic scale