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What is a musical scale in music?
Musical Scales A musical scale is a set of pitches (or a group of notes) that are arranged and played by increasing pitch (ascending) or decreasing pitch (descending) order. There are many different types of music scales. The major scales and minor scales are the two most commonly used musical scales. Songs that are written in…
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Double Sharps and Double Flats
Double Sharps A Double Sharp is an accidental used to raise a note by a whole step (two half steps). Double Flats A Double Flat is an accidental used to lower a note by a whole step. To raise a note by a whole step means moving two half steps to the right to the…
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Sharps and Flats – Steps and Accidentals
Accidentals Accidentals are signs used to raise or lower notes by half steps. Steps – Half Step A half step is the distance between two adjacent keys on a piano keyboard. In music theory, the distance between two notes is called an interval. A half step is the smallest musical interval in music. (It is…
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Dotted Notes
Dotted notes are notes with a small dot on the right side. When a dot is added on the right side of a note (or rest), its original duration is increased by half. Dotted Half Note Dotted half note A dotted half note is equal to the sum of a half note plus a quarter…
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Rest Duration & The Different Rest Types
Rest Duration Rest duration is the timing of silence in a measure. It is the length of the pause in a piece of music. Different rest types are: whole rest, half rest, quarter rest, eighth rest, and sixteenth rest. Each rest type tells you to pause or stop playing for a different amount of time.…
Piano Music Theory 