If the mention of scales conjures frightening flashbacks of instrumental lessons undertaken in your youth, you won’t be alone ...

Here’s how it works. Once you know how to construct major and minor scales on the piano, you can take the notes within them and start stacking them up together to play chords. While it’s possible to ...

The C major scale is made up of all the white notes on a piano keyboard, but other major scales (starting on different notes) include black notes - G major, for example, contains one sharp note, F#, ...

This bad rep is entirely unjustified, however, since, regardless of whether you're a composer, songwriter, producer or DJ, shoring up your musical knowledge with a smattering of grassroots theory can ...

Why are Minor Chords Perceived as “Sad”? Part 2 article by Kurt Ellenberger, published on July 9, 2025 at All About Jazz.

This was published 14 years ago Notes from heaven: piano on a grand scale Steve Meacham October 21, 2010 — 3.00am Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size ...