If the mention of scales conjures frightening flashbacks of instrumental lessons undertaken in your youth, you won’t be alone ...

Step 3: You can now play G-A-B-C with fingers 2-3-4 and 5, ending with your pinky on top C to complete the scale. To descend, simply play C-B-A-G-F with fingers 5-4-3-2 and 1, ending with the thumb ...

Major pentatonic. While major and minor scales have seven notes, pentatonic scales have only five. Essentially a major scale minus the 4th and 7th – C D E G A – the major pentatonic is a staple of ...

This bad rep is entirely unjustified, however, since, regardless of whether you're a composer, songwriter, producer or DJ, shoring up your musical knowledge with a smattering of grassroots theory can ...

Major scales can be in any key, but a simple major scale is what you get if you start C on a piano and go up, playing only white notes (listen to the audio above to hear examples of the all the ...