Question

who nos the whole b flat major scale??

Answer 1

So once you know one major scale, you kinda know them all. I will show you how to figure it out.

Let's start simple... can you name *all* the notes, starting from A to G#?

Answer 2

It would be this:

A
A# / Bb (same note)
B
C
C# / Db
D
D# / Eb
E
F
F# / Gb
G
G# / Ab
A (back to A, again)

are you familiar with that?

Answer 3

don't forget the sharps/flats in between! there is one between every note, except B/C and E/F.

Answer 4

but it starts with b flat?? right??

Answer 5

Yep!

Answer 6

Now a major scale has "predefined intervals", meaning we know the distance between each note in the scale. The template for a major scale is this:

the notes (starting at 0): 0 2 4 5 7 9 11 12
the distance between each note: 2 2 1 2 2 2 1

Now bear with me for a sec while I show you what these mean:

Answer 7

Starting at Bb and ending at Bb, we can lay out all the notes (I've numbered them for convenience)

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Bb B C Db D Eb E F Gb G Ab A Bb

Answer 8

And we know the template for a major scale is:
> the notes (starting at 0): 0 2 4 5 7 9 11 12

So if we choose those notes from the above, we end up with the Bb major scale

Bb C D Eb F G A Bb

Voila!

Answer 9

Did I lose you? Let me know what didn't make sense.

Answer 10

some musicians call it the whole step->whole step -> half step-> whole step -> whole step -> whole step -> half step pattern

i usually imagine a piano keyboard