A scale is a sequence of notes (known as ‘degrees’) that provides the raw material for a piece of music. The intervals between the notes follow a set pattern that depends on the type of scale. The ...

Andy Wood's debut column for Guitar World is an essential study for players looking to have a greater knowledge of the ...

Japanese music emphasises different intervals, too, and understanding the formulas of these more unusual sounding scales is a ...

The basic definition of a scale is a set of musical notes arranged in order. ... Whole tone scales are hexatonic, which means that they contain six notes, all separated by intervals of a whole tone - ...

The key to any scale is how the notes are spaced and their intervals. A music interval can be perfect, minor, major, augmented, or diminished, and as you would expect those intervals matter to the ...

At times when music was holy, harmonious and ordered, this dissonant interval went against everything it appeared to stand for. It was christened diabolus in musica – the Devil in music and the ...

Talking about 12 notes in music generally applies to music from the West and from some other parts of the world, but certainly isn’t an exhaustive system for all music. Arabic music had a 17-tone ...

The mathematical rules for creating musical harmony may be more malleable than thought. Western music theory traditionally holds that chords sound most pleasant when they contain notes separated ...

The Devil is said to have the best tunes, but what do they sound like? A new film about the history of heavy metal highlights the so-called Devil's Interval, a musical phenomenon suppressed by the ...