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B flat major scale a major scale1/31/2024 ![]() ![]() It's important, too, to visualise scales on your instrument + on the staves (both treble and bass staves) + on a piano keyboard. It's a basic skill that benefits to every musician. My opinion, is that the best way to remember it is by playing and playing again your scales. The scale of a piece of music is usually indicated by a key signature, a symbol that flattens or sharpens specific lines or spaces on the staff. There are some simple techniques to remember how many flats (or sharps) correspond to which scale. The A flat major scale contains 4 flats: the notes Ab, Bb, Db, and Eb. Those are the same pitches, but with different names, nothing special other than that.Īs you will see, we will construct, for example, the C♭ scale : same pitches as B scale, so the C♭ scale is not common. You will notice that, for example, we will construct the scale of D♭, and the scale of C♯. ![]() Those notes are: B C D E F G A As you can see, it has five sharp notes: F, C, G, D and A. It then follows the major scale formula of whole and half steps. The second part deals with scales that need flats (♭) to be constructed, sorted by number of flats (from 1 flat to 7 flats) The B major scale is made up of seven notes starting on B (which is known as the keynote). The first part deals with scales that need sharps (♯) to be constructed, sorted by number of sharps (from 1 sharp to 7 sharps) (using the same recipe, that is the last column we used for C major scale and D major scale) See this post for details. We will construct all usual major scales. ![]() Now that you know almost everything about Accidentals, it's about time we reach the next level! ![]()
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