Major Scales
In the key of B major, these are the pitches that are not sharped.
What are B and E?
If played correctly, this is D minor.
What is [play D minor]?
In the key of F major, a triad built on the third note of the scale would have this quality.
What is minor?
This mode is the same as the major scales.
What is the Ionian Mode?
In a measure with a 9/8 meter, these are the number of dotted quarter notes that would fit.
What is 3?
If played correctly, this is the major scale that has 3 sharps.
What is [play A major]?
This type of minor scale has the leading tone going both up and down.
What is the harmonic minor scale?
This is the order of sharps.
What is F, C, G, D, A, E, and B?
This mode is similar to the major scale except that it has a raised 4th.
What is the Lydian Mode?
These are 4 ways to play the middle Bb on a saxophone.
What are side, Bis, 1/1, and 1/2 (1/3 is also possible as well as fingering low Bb and getting the 1st partial)?
If played correctly, this is Eb major.
What is [play Eb major]?
This is the minor scale that has an augmented second between G natural and A sharp.
What is B melodic minor?
The seventh note of a natural minor scale is not a leading tone; it is called this instead.
What is a subtonic?
This mode of the Melodic Minor Scale has the raised 4th of the Lydian Mode and the lowered 7th of the Mixolydian Mode.
What is the Mixture Scale (or the Lydian Dominant Scale)?
Too tight of an embouchure on the saxophone would cause the pitch to be this (flat or sharp).
What is sharp?
These 2 major scales are enharmonic - one of them has the same number of sharps as the other one has flats.
What are Gb and F# major?
If played correctly, this is G harmonic minor.
What is [play G harmonic minor]?
In the key of G major, the V7 of V would have these pitches.
What are A, C#, E, and G?
This mode of the Melodic Minor Scale contains all the alterations possible to a dominant seventh chord.
What is the Altered (or the Diminished-Whole Tone) Scale?
This saxophonist recorded the album "Love Supreme."
Who is John Coltrane?
If played correctly, this is F# major.
What is [play F# major]?
If played correctly, this is the relative (natural) minor of A major.
What is [play F# natural minor]?
This chord has the pitches B, D, F, and A.
What is a B half-diminished chord (or a B minor seven flat five)?
If played correctly, this is the B dorian mode.
What is [play B dorian]?
Of 1839, 1846, or 1872, this is the year that Belgian-born inventor Adolphe Sax initially applied for 14 instrument patents for his new "saxophone."
What is 1846?