Clef Jumping
Sometimes called the G clef, this clef is used by the female voices, trumpets, and the violin family, among many others.
What is the Treble Clef?
A natural is the leading tone of this scale, which has two flats.
What is Bb Major?
The relative minor to G Major.
What is E minor.
The "home" note of a scale.
What is Tonic?
C to G.
What is a perfect fifth?
Also referred to as the F clef, this clef is used by baritone and bass voices and low brass.
What is the Bass Clef?
Bb is the dominant of this scale.
What is Eb Major?
The parallel minor to Bb Major.
What is Bb minor?
This crucial scale degree is "sol," in solfege.
What is the dominant (V)?
Bb to Eb.
What is a perfect fourth?
This clef places middle C on the middle line.
What is the Alto Cle?
The four sharps of the E major scale.
What are F#, C#, G#, and D#?
The accidentals of the f# natural minor scale.
What are F#, C#, G#?
This scale degree always resolves to the tonic.
What is Leading Tone?
B to A.
What is a minor seventh?
This is created when the bass and treble clef staffs are linked, as happens often with keyboard instruments.
What is a grand staff?
This is how you convert a natural minor scale to a harmonic minor.
What is raising the seventh?
This scale degree immediately precedes the dominant in the standard phrase model.
What is Subdominant?
Called the "devil's interval," but hidden within all dominant seventh chords.
What is a tritone/diminished fifth/augmented fourth?
This clef is used in the upper ranges of some bass instruments, and is a relative of the alto clef.
What is the tenor clef?
This scale takes all seven flats, and is rarely called by this name.
What is Cb major?
This is how you convert a natural minor scale to melodic minor.
What is raising the sixth and seventh in the ascending scale only?
The standard phrase model, subject to variation and extension.
What is T-PD-D-T?
The chordal seventh always resolves in this way.
What is down by step?