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Identify: Ascending chromatic scale
A scale consisting of only half steps, ascending.
Identify: Descending chromatic scale
A scale consisting of only half steps, descending.
Identify: Whole-tone scale
A scale consisting entirely of whole steps.
Identify: Major pentatonic scale
A five-note scale with a major tonality.
Identify: Minor pentatonic scale
A five-note scale with a minor tonality.
What is a chromatic scale?
A 12-note scale consisting entirely of half steps.
What is a whole-tone scale?
A six-note scale where each note is a whole step away from the next.
What is a pentatonic scale?
A five-note scale found in music all around the world.
What is a major pentatonic scale?
A five-note scale derived from the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and 6th degrees of a major scale.
What is a minor pentatonic scale?
A five-note scale derived from the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 7th degrees of a natural minor scale.
What is the blues scale?
A minor pentatonic scale with an added note between the 3rd and 4th degrees.
Identify this scale: scale consisting of only half steps
Chromatic scale
Identify this scale: scale consisting of only whole steps
Whole-tone scale
Identify this scale: five-note scale
Pentatonic scale