Do Majeur Tab

Part 4 ➤ Making Notes 124 Sharps and Flats We now know that notes are identified for convenience by a letter name, and that the distance from one to the other may be a tone or a half tone. Why the difference? The reason is that Western music is traditionally built on certain successions of notes known as scales, the most common of which is the major scale. Starting on the note C this is how it looks: In the diagram, W stands for a whole-tone interval and H for a half-tone interval. As an example, the first phrase of the tune “Bluebells of Scotland” uses all the notes of the C- major scale. W W H W W W H 3 0 2 3 0 2 0 1 Everything works fine using the scale of C, but what happens if we want to write the tune higher or lower to make it fit our voice range? If we just shift it up the staff it won’t sound right. Play it to see why: 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 1 2 2 3 0 3 The tune sounds different because the intervals have changed. To keep the same tune we want the interval from the second note to the third to be a half tone, as it was before. To do this we must raise the F by a half step, which we can do by inserting a sharp sign ( ). 3 3 1 0 3 0 1 3 0 0 1 2 0

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Part 4 ➤ Making Notes

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Sharps and FlatsWe now know that notes are identified for convenience by a letter name, and that thedistance from one to the other may be a tone or a half tone. Why the difference? The reasonis that Western music is traditionally built on certain successions of notes known as scales,the most common of which is the major scale.

Starting on the note C this is how it looks:

In the diagram, W stands for a whole-tone interval and H for a half-tone interval.

As an example, the first phrase of the tune “Bluebells of Scotland” uses all the notes of the C-major scale.

W WH W W W H

30 2 3

0 20 1

Everything works fine using the scale of C, but what happens if we want to write the tunehigher or lower to make it fit our voice range? If we just shift it up the staff it won’t soundright. Play it to see why:

01 0

2 0 20 1

2 2 3 03

The tune sounds different because the intervals have changed. To keep the same tune wewant the interval from the second note to the third to be a half tone, as it was before. To dothis we must raise the F by a half step, which we can do by inserting a sharp sign ( ).

33 1 0

30 1 3

0 0 12 0