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In the key of C, beginning with F and ending with E, this is the four letter word that fills in the spaces in the treble clef.
What is FACE?
An interval is defined as the musical distance between two of these.
What are pitches?
BEADGCF is a tool used to help remember the order of these in key signatures.
What are flats?
The system of sounds for a major scale.
What is solfege?
A basic triad consists of this many notes stacked together in intervals that determine the quality of the triad.
What is three?
In any key, it is the word for the series eight main notes that start on a note and end on the same note higher or lower than the first.
What is an octave?
The 4th, 5th, Unison, and Octaves are the only intervals with this interval quality.
What is perfect?
For every Major key, there is a relative one of these.
What is a minor key?
The pitches that the “blues note” can be found between in the blues scale.
What are the 4th and 5th pitch?
The name of the lowest note when a triad is in it’s simplest form.
What is the root?
The enharmonic note for D# on a keyboard.
What is Eb?
2nds, 3rds, 6ths, and 7ths can be found in these interval qualities.
What are Major/minor?
The only key without notes in the key signature.
What is C?
In this scale, the notes ascend W-H-W-W-W-W-H but descend differently, back to their natural minor form.
What is the melodic minor scale?
A triad made up of a root then a Major 3 above the root and a minor 3 above the Major third is this kind of triad.
What is a Major triad?
It is the only flat note in the key of F Major.
What is B flat?
This interval occurs when a perfect/Major is widened by a half step.
What is Augmented?
This is the relative Major key for B minor.
What is D?
The scale with “no musical center of gravity” and is a scale made up of six pitches that are equidistant.
What is the whole tone scale?
A triad made up of a minor 3 and minor 3 stacked above the root creates this type of triad. It can also be identified as root, third, and fifth stacked.
What is diminished?
This is the only note that isn’t sharp in the D# minor scale.
What is B?
This interval occurs when a perfect or minor interval is reduced by a half step or one semi-tone.
What is diminished?
The key signature for these Major and minor keys has three flats.
What are Eb and Cm?
The major and minor versions of this scale only have 5 notes and are heard in songs like “Tideo” and “Sakura.”
What is the pentatonic scale?
When you add a minor 7th above the root to a major triad which has a root, major third, and perfect fifth, you end up with this type of chord.
What is a dominant 7th chord?