Candice Alderfer
Apr 22, 20209 min read
Building Major Scales!
Hey Guys! Today I’m going to be talking to y’all about creating major scales! The major scale is one of the most essential scales to...

A journey to learning music theory
Hey Guys! Today I’m going to be talking to y’all about creating major scales! The major scale is one of the most essential scales to...
Wassup Guys! I wanted write a quick post today talking about the use of double sharp and flat accidentals in major scales! I'm posting a...
Hey Guys! It's been a super long time since I've updated on my music blogs. Life got the best of me for a while but I'm going to change...
I've been writing down a lot of letters to document my learning when it comes to reading notes. But in order to really read or write...
I've posted before about intervals and being able to distinguish both the type and quality of distances between notes, but I wanted to...
So, I've previously posted about how to make all these different triads and the interval formulas to create them. I wanted to draw out...
Before now, I was always extremely hesitant to jump into learning music theory because I associated everything with math. Math and music...
I'm sure that many of you would agree when I say that music would be a hell of a lot easier if everything were as simple to understand as...
I am ALL about repetition. I like to write my major and minor scales every single day to keep my brain comfortable with knowing them by...
We've talked about building major and minor triads and the intervals within each of the three notes used to create them. To make a major...
So, you thought there was only major and minor, huh? Well, so did I. But apparently, the natural minor scale comes with a posse. Kinda...
I like to think of modes as music having multiple personalities. Modes have different patterns that lay out the intervals between notes...
In my last post I dove into major triads and the intervals used to create them. If you understand major triads then comprehending the...
When In Doubt, Intervals There are many types of chords that can be made when we combine and stack notes on top of each other in...
Okay, what the hell. I thought this was music, not algebra. Music is not algebra, but let’s just say that music and math are basically...
The best way for me to learn is by forcing myself to constantly write the scales out and remember where they are on a piano. These are...
Inside the circle of fifths, we place the relative minors to each of the corresponding notes on the outside of the circle. To find the...
The circle of fifths in music theory is used to represent the intervals between each of the twelve notes in the chromatic scale ( C,...
The best way for me to learn is by forcing myself to constantly write the scales out and remember where they are on a piano. These are...
