Major Scales
This major scale has 3 sharps.
What is A major?
The relative minor of any major is this note in the major scale.
What is the 6th note?
This is the order of sharps.
What is F, C, G, D, A, E, B?
Of the modes of the major scale, this mode is the same as the natural minor.
What is the aeolian mode?
He is generally considered to be the inventor of the saxophone.
Who is Adolphe Saxe?
If played correctly (full range of the horn), this is D major.
What is (correctly play D major)?
If played correctly (full range of the horn), this is A natural minor.
What is (correctly play A natural minor)?
This is a scale consisting entirely of major 2nd intervals.
What is a whole tone scale?
These are - in order - the modes of the major scale.
What are ionian, dorian, phrygian, lydian, mixolydian, aeolian, and locrian?
Of 1826, 1836, and 1846, this was the year that the saxophone was patented.
What is 1846?
If played correctly (full range of the horn), this is Bb major.
What is (correctly play Bb major)?
This is the parallel minor of B major.
What is B minor?
This scale can be distinguished by the augmented second interval between its 6th and 7th steps.
What is the harmonic minor scale?
If played correctly (full range of the horn), this is D dorian.
What is (correctly play D dorian)?
The bass saxophone sounds an octave lower than this other member of the saxophone family.
What is the tenor saxophone?
This scale has the same number of sharps as Gb major has flats.
What is F# major?
If played correctly (full range of the horn), this is E harmonic minor.
What is (correctly play E harmonic minor)?
The key signature of 4 sharps probably indicates one of these 2 keys.
What are E major and C# minor?
The dorian b2, the altered scale, and the superlocrian scale are modes of this scale.
What is the melodic minor scale (ascending form)?
This saxophonist, sometimes called "Yardbird" or "Bird," was a leading figure in the development of bebop.
Who is Charlie Parker?
If played correctly (full range of the horn), this is E major.
What is (correctly play E major)?
If played correctly (full range of the horn), these are the three forms of D minor.
What is (correctly play the three forms of D minor)?
This scale looks like a major scale that is "missing" its 4th and 7th notes.
What is a pentatonic scale?
This mode of the melodic minor scale has the raised 4th of a lydian and the lowered 7th of a mixolydian. It is sometimes called the lydian dominant.
What is the mixture scale?
This saxophonist, born in 1901, is considered the founder of the French School of saxophone playing; many pieces in the standard repertory were dedicated to him.
Who is Marcel Mule?