Lesson 11: Tones & Semi-Tones
The emphasis in this lesson is to learn the difference between a semi-tone and a tone, and their relative locations in a major scale.
Learning these two things will help you develop your skills at playing music by ear and to gain an understanding of the beginning theory for how the twelve different modern keys of music were derived.
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Figure 1 below shows the C major scale.
The emphasis in this lesson is to learn the difference between a semi-tone and a tone, and their relative locations in a major scale.
Learning these two things will help you develop your skills at playing music by ear and to gain an understanding of the beginning theory for how the twelve different modern keys of music were derived.
The major scale has eight notes, decribed by seven intervals.
Five of the intervals are full steps, also known as tones.
Two of the intervals are half steps also known as semi-tones.
The semi-tone is the smallest musical interval in modern music.
Full steps are located two frets away from each other on the guitar fretboard.
A half step or semi-tone is located on the very next fret higher or lower in pitch than the first note being of the interval being played.
In the major scale, the two semi-tones are located between the third and fourth (betweeen the E and the F) and the seventh and eighth note of the scale (between the B and the C).
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The C minor scale shown below in figure 2. The minor scale is similar to a major scale except the third note of the scale is flatted. So a triad (major chord) or arpeggio for C minor uses the C, E Flat and the G notes. (I, Flatted III and V in musical short hand notation).
Figure 3 below shows the chromatic scale and beginning discussion about sharps and flats:
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