Transcript Document

Don Pearce
Grand Canyon University
TEC 542
Module Seven Assignment
March 16, 2011
Learning Major and Minor Scales
PowerPoint Tutorial
Learning Major and Minor Scales:
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How to construct a Major Scale
How to draw a Major Scale on a given note
How to construct a minor scale
How to draw a minor scale on a given note
How to tell the difference between a
Major and minor scale by ear
If you have trouble at any time doing this tutorial –
ask Mr. Pearce for a helper, to assist you in completing
Today’s work!
What we have learned so far:
• Treble and Bass clef note names
• Whole steps and half steps
Half steps are the notes
that are closest to each
other
Whole steps skip the next
note and go to the next
available note
To help us understand whole and half steps
we also used pictures:
= whole
= half
And we made blocks:
= whole
= half
Now you are ready to learn how to construct
major and minor scales!
For the Major scale: The formula is
“two-and-a-half, three-and-a-half,.”
Look at the chart below to see how this works,
starting on the note “C.”
FROM: http://www.musictheory.net/lessons/21
See how the Major Scale is built on the note “E-flat.:”
See how the Major Scale is built on the note “D:”
Now, fill in the work sheet you have,
to show you have mastered major scales,
and hand it to Mr. Pearce before moving on.
For the minor scale: The formula is
“one-and-a-half, two-and-a-half, two.”
Look at the chart below to see how this works,
starting on the note “A.”
FROM: http://www.musictheory.net/lessons/22
See how the minor Scale is built on the note “G-sharp:”
See how the minor Scale is built on the note “C:”
To show that you can construct minor scales, use one
of the following:
Take two pictures of different objects with your
camera phone, and place the pictures in the correct
order of the minor scale formula (to represent the
whole and half steps), in a WORD document,
showing me your results, or: (next slide, please)
Take the blocks of we made in class to represent
whole steps and half steps and place them in the
correct order to represent the construction of a
minor scale, then show me your efforts or: (next
slide please)
Listen to the MP3 file of five scales I recorded for you and
placed on
http://www.donpearce.net/classrooindex/advancedchoir/link
and write down which of the five MP3 files are minor scales,
handing your results in to me.
Now that you have completed this tutorial –
really prove to me you know what you are doing by
going to our class blog at:
http://omakadvancedchoir.blogspot.com/
When you get there, please post the following
entries under your name:
1. Major scale built on C-sharp written by
note letter name
2. Minor scale built on E, written by note
later name
References:
Ricci Adam’s Music Theory.net
http://www.musictheory.net/lessons/21
Ricci Adam’s Music Theory.net
http://www.musictheory.net/lessons/22
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