Music Rudiments

Minor Inconvenience

100

Minor key signature with no sharps or flats

a minor

200

Minor mode with a raised 7th scale degree

Harmonic minor

300

CDEbFGABC

C melodic minor

400

4 sharps with an added B-sharp

C-sharp harmonic minor

500

D#E#F#G#A#B#Cx

D# melodic minor

Krabs a la Mode

100

The Greek word for "Major"

Ionian

200

The Greek word for "Minor"

Aeolian

300

3rd mode of A major

C# Phrygian

400

DEFGABCD

D Dorian

500

F#GABCDEF#

F# Locrian

Indispensable Intervals

100

Quality of unisons, 4ths, 5ths, and octaves

Perfect

200

A-Eb

D5

300

Inverts to m3rds

M6

400

Gx-F#

D7

500

Ebb-Bbb

P5

Tantalizing Transpositions

100

Alto sax, clarinet, trumpet, guitar, horn are all this

Transposing instruments

200

Transposes up M6

Alto sax

300

Woodwind transposes up M2

Clarinet

400

For an Alto sax to play a concert "Bb", it would need to read

G

500

For Horn to play a concert "Gb" it would need to read

Db

Eugene's Trick Bag

100

A major third starting on C

E

200

Minor mode with a raised 6th and 7th

Melodic minor

300

Mode starting on the 4th note of the major scale

Lydian

400

Key signature of g# minor

5 sharps

500

For a trumpet to play a concert "B" it would need to read a

C#