No one trumps Beethoven in transforming simple ingredients – repeated notes, scales, an almost cliched military trumpet call – into prized originality.
You have a relationship to notes, scales and chords, and the more intimate that relationship is, the richer the music you make.
Like the musical context in which they occur, the themes themselves are likely to consist of chord notes, scales, or simple repeated notes.
Research notes, scales and fingerings.
Learn notes, scales and how to form chords and songs.
Pentatonic scale, also called five-note scale or five-tone scale, musical scale containing five different tones.
He played music from India, with a 22-note scale and no harmony.
We may up the scale, a 10-note scale on M-I-L-E-S-D-A-V-I-S.
The music, though based on 3 tone rows and an 8-note scale, is melodic; it is also percussive.
A musical scholar who is a fellow at Harvard, Mulatu likes to talk technically about the distinctive qualities of Ethiopian music and its use of the five-note pentatonic scale rather than the West's eight-note scale.
