Scale (music)

Music theory

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• scale is like a "palette" of notes. if you were going to paint a picture, you could know what colours you need beforehand.

• C major is the most "comfortable" for many people. named "C" for the tonic (the first note of the scale).

• hierarchy of importance in tonal music: first note of the scale, then the other notes of the scale, out-of-scale music

• atonal music is unsettling for westerners