The Chromatic Scale (Writing Practical)

How to Read Music for Guitar Introduction To The Western Theory of Music
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In this practical, we look at how to draw the natural, sharp and flat signs, as well as revising the notes of the chromatic scale with enharmonic equivalents. Grab your notebook and follow along.

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So here we just want to practice writing the natural sharp and flat signs, as well as the chromatic scale with it's in harmonic equivalence. So we're just going to start with the natural sign, and the natural sign looks like this. income, kind of think of it as being like an L join to a seven. So we're just gonna practice a couple of those. Now, the sharp sign and the hash tag are sometimes confused. The, the sharp, the hash tag rather looks like this to slightly forward slanting down strokes and to horizontal cross strokes, whereas the sharp sign has two vertical downstrokes and two slightly backward slanting Crossroads like that.

So we're just going to practice a few sharp signs. I'm just writing in a regular note notebook. So you can follow along at home. Now the flat sign is really easy, it just sort of looks like a B but with a squashed end. That's all a flat sign is. So we're going to practice a few of those.

Now the natural notes you would normally write the letter name so like a with a natural sign next to it will be C, etc. But if we just write a BC. In other words, just the letter name without the natural sign in the naturals is taken for granted. So for the natural notes, we'll just write the letter name without the natural sign. Now as you can see, I've just turned my notebook on its side and we're going to practice writing out the chromatic scale with it's in harmonic equivalent notes. So we're going to start with the natural modes.

And I'm just going to leave a line in between the natural nodes this and as you know, after g we come, come back to a again. Now in between the natural notes, I'm just going to fill in the sharp notes. So I'm going to put the sharp notes above. So we're going to have a goes to a sharp a sharp would do a to b, b goes straight to C, C goes to C sharp C. To D, D to D sharp, D sharp to E, ego straight F, F to F sharp, F sharp, G, G to G sharp and then we get to a. Now we're going to do the same thing but with flat notes instead of sharp notes. So instead of a sharp, we're going to go A, B flat, B flat to B, B still straight is C, C to D flat, D flat to D, D to E flat, E flat, E, E straight F, F to G flat, G flat, G and G to a flat and then a flat will go to a so now we have The chromatic scale with a natural notes and the sharp and flat and harmonic equivalent notes as well.

These are all an harmonic equivalents as you know. And if you were looking at a piano keyboard the natural notes would be the white keys on the piano. And these notes these no harmonics would be the black keys. So next we're going to just write out the chromatic scale with natural notes and sharp notes starting from a. So we got a, a sharp B, B straight to C, C sharp, D, D sharp he, he straight f F sharp, G, G sharp and G sharp is going to a. Now we can write out the chromatic scale starting from any note in the chromatic scale doesn't have to necessarily start from the node A.

So just as an example, we're going to start from the E. So, we can go to E, F, F sharp, G, G sharp, a, a sharp, B, B straight to C, C to C sharp, D, D sharp And now we're going to do exactly the same thing but with natural notes and flat notes this time. So we're going to start from a, a wood instead of a sharp go B flat, B, C, D flat, D, E flat, E, straight F, G flat, G, A flat and then we back to A. Now let's start from E. So E, E, E straight F, G flat, G, A flat, A, B flat B, straight to C, D flat, D, E flat and we ending on the E. So we've practiced writing out on natural sharp and flat signs, as well as the chromatic scale with its in harmonic equivalent modes.

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