1) Can you distinguish between the major and minor sounds? Are you sure? Click Example 1 to double check back on the start page. Hearing this basic distinction is key, both here with these basic ideas and down the road as the theory gets thicker.
2) How would you describe and compare the major and minor tonalities?
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3) Do you have a favorite melody written in a major key? Minor key? Can you sing these melodies? Can you play them on your instrument?
4) Do you remember the name for the 5 note scale? .
5) Is there a major and minor 5 note scale?
Yes? No?
6) What top 40 tune from the 1850's was created from the pentatonic scale in example three from the start page? ______________________.
7) The term "penta" implies how many? .
8) The minor pentatonic color is an ancient group of pitches and continues it's path to glory as a mainstay for and players.
9) The relative major / minor scales are created from the same pitches.
Yes? No?
10) The relative major / minor scales share the same key signature.
Yes? No?
11) The relative minor / major scales are the same as the relative major / minor scales.
Yes? No?
12) What musical interval splits the octave exactly in half? .
13) Adding the tritone to the minor pentatonic scale we create the scale.
14) Adding the tritone to the major pentatonic scale we create the scale.
15) From what scale is L Mason's "Joy To The World" created from? .
16) What scale is created exclusively by using half step intervals? .
17) Define in your own words what the term chromatic means.
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18) The term enharmonic equivelents implies one pitch with two names.
Yes? No?
19) It is possible to build major and minor scales from each pitch of the chromatic scale.
Yes? No?
20) If you answered yes to the last question, how many different major scales are there? . Major keys? .
21) If yes, how many different minor scales are there? . Minor keys? .
22) Fill in the letter names of the pitches of the following chart of scale degrees and the pitches of the C major scale.
| scale degree | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th |
| pitches | C | A |
23) If a C major triad is created from the 1st, 3rd and 5th degrees of the C major scale, what are the letter names?
1st 3rd 5th .
24) Fill in the blank letter names of the pitches of the following chart spelling out the seven diatonic triads of the key of C major.
| scale degree | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th |
| pitches | D | G | B |
| chord degrees | 1st | 3rd | 5th | 4th | 7th | 9th | 11th | 15th |
| pitches | E | G | D | A |
| triads | C E G | D__A | G ___ |
F ___ |
D___ |
A __ E |
B__ F |
E__G |
25) Another term for the 1st degree of the scale is the root.
Yes? No?
26) Tertian harmony allows us to skip every other note of the scale to create arpeggios and spell the chords. Yes? No?
27) Fill in the blank letter names of the pitches of the following chart spelling out the seven diatonic triads of the key of A minor.
| scale degree | i | ii | III | iv | v | VI | VII | viii |
| pitches | A | C | F | G |
| chord degrees | 1st | 3rd | 5th | 4th | 7th | 9th | 11th | 15th |
| arpeggio | C | B | D | A |
| triads | A C E |
B _ F |
_ E _ |
D _ _ |
_ B _ |
_ _ C | G B _ | _ _ _ |
28) In the chart above, upper case Roman numerals denote major triads.
Yes? No?
29) In the chart above, lower case Roman numerals denote minor triads.
Yes? No?
30) In your own words, what is the structural difference between a major and minor triad? .
31) The two consistant pitches between a major and minor triad with the same root letter are the 1st and the 5th.
Yes? No?
32) The key difference between the major and minor triad is in the quality of it's degree.
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