Melody and reading music
Scales: major and minor
A scale puts eight notes in a fixed pattern of tones and semitones. Major sounds bright, minor darker. The pattern decides which sharps or flats you need.
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Why
Why does one piece sound cheerful and another sad, even though the notes are almost the same?
Almost every melody uses a fixed set of seven notes: the scale. Which set you choose colours the whole piece.
The difference lies in where the small steps, the semitones, fall. One different step turns bright into dark.
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