But, the importance of scales cannot be understated - they are a vital foundation of music. A scale is a sequence of notes that are played in a mostly step-wise motion, over a duration of an octave (e ...

Each day for 30 days, I will release “piano yoga” videos in the hopes that we can explore key areas of music theory and get to know the piano better together. Kathy Hochul asks Marjorie Taylor ...

Major, minor, pentatonic? Doolittle said that in the late 19th and early 20th century, many naturalists described the bird as singing in major, minor or pentatonic scales, or changing keys as it sang.

Play these notes starting on C and you're playing the C major scale (also known as the Ionian mode – the 'first' mode). Start on D and you're playing the second mode (D Dorian, as it happens).