![]() Can you point to a half step above F? If you're pointing here to G-flat you're correct. Now we're up to MI, and we're ready for the half step. ![]() Remember, we always have to skip one key, black or white to make it a whole step. ![]() Can you point to a key that's a whole step above E-flat? If you're pointing here you're correct. Okay, now from RE to MI is also a whole step. That's a whole step because there's one key in between. So we're going to skip over this white key and land here. That gap tells you we have to skip over one key, black or white. You can remember that because there's this gap here. Remember that from DO to RE is a whole step. A half-step below wherever you were before. Remember a flat takes you to the nearest key to the left. Now we can use this to figure out how to move DO to a black key. Remember that MI and FA are best friends. If you ever forget how to build a major pentascale, just make this hand sign and you've got it. So here's DO RE MI FA SO You can see there's a whole step here, a whole step, then a half step, and then a whole step. That's to remind you where the half step is. Can you make this shape with your right hand? Notice how I put my fingers 3 and 4 together. Now here's a little secret hand sign you can do to remember that. Wherever DO moves though it's always the same formula to build a major pentascale, and that formula is: whole step, whole step, half step, whole step. DO can move wherever he wants depending on the song. So the letters are like the address, but Mr. Just like when you move, your address doesn't move with you. Remember the letter names on the piano are fixed they will never move. ![]() MI to FA is a half step of course, and then FA to SO another whole step. DO can move his family to D where he's on D and the relationships in his family stay the same. But, do you always have to live in the same house? No. You can kind of think of C as like an address, where Mr. Way back a long time ago we learned about the C major pentascale. It's really important to remember that DO can move depending on the song. So let's come to the piano to learn the dark side of the pentascale. They can and in this unit we're going to learn several of these new black key pentascales. Did you know that pentascales can start on a black key? That's right. ![]()
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