![]() ![]() At 4 yrs old, we're told you can't take 6 away from 5. Humans not only like ordering, but making 'rules' too! And rules can get broken. In fact, in a diatonic piece, we don't have to use all 7 notes to produce a good tune (but they're the go-to notes at least). ![]() That's just another set of notes, that can be put into a scale (the major scale), which work well together, both from a melodic point of view, but also in a harmonic way - take alternate notes from the scale, and they blend together to form chords, which all sound like they 'belong' to that key, and thus are coherent in that piece.Ī sort of child-like analogy may be - we have 26 letters in the alphabet, but we never have to use all of them, but - we almost always have to use at least one of the five vowels to make words pronouncable, if that makes sense at all. The notes in key are generally, particularly in major keys, called the diatonic notes. So called as it's colourful, and often adds colour to a piece of music by using notes out of the key. One such scale incorporates all the notes found on a piano - the black and white keys - it's the chromatic scale. So many (many, many) sets of notes exist - humans love ordering and pigeon-holing - and have done just that. Scales are simply sets of notes, ordered ascending/descending. It's a good question, and one a beginner may ponder for a long time! ![]()
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