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Scales & modes25 items
Scale
🔊📋Diatonic scale
🔊📋Major scale
🔊📋Minor scale
🔊📋Natural minor scale
🔊📋Harmonic minor scale
🔊📋Melodic minor scale
🔊📋Pentatonic scale
🔊📋Major pentatonic scale
🔊📋Minor pentatonic scale
🔊📋Chromatic scale
🔊📋Whole-tone scale
🔊📋Mode
🔊📋Church mode
🔊📋Ionian mode
🔊📋Dorian mode
🔊📋Phrygian mode
🔊📋Lydian mode
🔊📋Mixolydian mode
🔊📋Aeolian mode
🔊📋Locrian mode
🔊📋Blues scale
🔊📋Octatonic scale
🔊📋Tetrachord
🔊📋Blue note
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Keys & key signatures25 items
Key
🔊📋Tonality
🔊📋Major key
🔊📋Minor key
🔊📋Key signature
🔊📋Accidental
🔊📋Sharp
🔊📋Flat
🔊📋Natural
🔊📋Double sharp
🔊📋Double flat
🔊📋Enharmonic equivalence
🔊📋Circle of fifths
🔊📋Relative key
🔊📋Parallel key
🔊📋Closely related keys
🔊📋Modulation
🔊📋Transposition
🔊📋Tonic
🔊📋Supertonic
🔊📋Mediant
🔊📋Subdominant
🔊📋Dominant
🔊📋Submediant
🔊📋Leading tone
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💡 Everyday examples
- Going up one key at a time from middle C (C4, MIDI 60) is a semitone; seven semitones up reaches a perfect fifth (G4, MIDI 67, 60 + 7 = 67).
- Pitch names, metres, scales and dynamic signs taught in school music classes are aligned with the grade bands of Korea, Japan, Australia and the UK.
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