Scale Lesson

• Music Theory
• Piano Chords
• Piano Chords in the Key of C
• Piano Chords in the Key of D
• Piano Chords in the Key of E
• Piano Chords in the Key of F
• Piano Chords in the Key of G
• Piano Chords in the Key of A
• Piano Chords in the Key of B
• Guitar Chords
• Guitar Chords in the Key of C
• Guitar Chords in the Key of D
• Guitar Chords in the Key of E
• Guitar Chords in the Key of F
• Guitar Chords in the Key of G
• Guitar Chords in the Key of A
• Guitar Chords in the Key of B
• Scale Lessons
• Chinese scale (Major Pentatonic scale)
• Oriental (Arabic) scale
• Indian scale
• Spanish scale
• Gypsy scale
• Natural minor scale (Aeorian Mode)
• Harmonic minor scale
• Melodic minor scale
• Major scale (Ionian Mode)
• Dorian scale
• Phrygian scale
• Lydian scale
• Mixolydian scale
• Locrian scale

Major Scale (Ionian scale)

This lecture is the Major scale, also called the Ionian mode of the Church Mode.

It's not too much to say that the major scale is the king of the scales.

Each pitch of the Major scale.

Major scale (Ionian Scale)

	C		D		E	F		G		A		B
Major Scale	♪		♪		♪	♪		♪		♪		♪

Major scale's each interval is "whole-whole-half-whole-whole-whole-half". This is realy famous pitch. With the help of leading-tone (7th note), the major scale produces strong cadence.

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Triads and Seventh Chords

Major scale has the following triads and 7th chords.

Triad in the C Major Scale

Triad	C	Dm	Em	F	G	Am	Bdim
Degree Names	I	IIm	IIIm	IV	V	VIm	VIIdim

Seventh Chord in the c Major Scale

7th Chord	CM7	Dm7	Em7	FM7	G7	Am7	Bm7(b5)
Degree Names	IM7	IIm7	IIIm7	IVM7	V7	VIm7	VIIm7(b5)

Seventh Chords in the C major scale

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Chords in each key

Lets look at the table of chords in each major key.

Triads on each major scale

	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII
C major scale	C	Dm	Em	F	G	Am	Bm(b5)
D major scale	D	Em	F#m	G	A	Bm	C#m(b5)
E major scale	E	F#m	G#m	A	B	C#m	D#m(b5)
F major scale	F	Gm	Am	Bb	C	Dm	Em(b5)
G major scale	G	Am	Bm	C	D	Em	F#m(b5)
A major scale	A	Bm	C#m	D	E	F#m	G#m(b5)
B major scale	B	C#m	D#m	E	F#	G#m	A#m(b5)
Db major scale	Db	Ebm	Fm	Gb	Ab	Bbm	Cm(b5)
Eb major scale	Eb	Fm	Gm	Ab	Bb	Cm	Dm(b5)
Gb major scale	Gb	Abm	Bbm	Cb	Db	Ebm	Fm(b5)
Ab major scale	Ab	Bbm	Cm	Db	Eb	Fm	Gm(b5)
Bb major scale	Bb	Cm	Dm	Eb	F	Gm	Am(b5)

I'll explain the details about the music theory in the other pages.