Music Scales Explained in 6 Minutes

In this video, you’ll learn how to use music scales in 6 minutes. These topics will be covered at a beginner level, and applied on the keyboard.

Follow along with a downloadable guide here:

00:00 Intro
00:19 Scales in music
00:57 Notes on the Piano
1:54 Octaves
2:14 Half steps and Whole steps?
2:38 Musical keys
3:03 The major scale?
3:23 The major scale formula
3:37 The key of G major
4:18 Scales starting on black keys
5:37 Making melodies

First, you’ll learn about vibrations and how they make sound. From there, you’ll learn about how vibrations are measured as frequencies.

Next, you’ll learn about labelling frequencies so that they’re easy to access when you are making music. This is where you’ll get your musical notes.

After labelling your notes, you’ll learn about how those notes exist on the piano. This is how they're organized for music making.

Once you label the notes, you'll learn how to organize them into the major scale formula. Knowing this will help you to determine the musical keys of music.

To finish up, you’ll learn about some efficient practice techniques. These techniques will allow you to absorb and apply this information.

Looking for something more advanced? Check out our article on modes and take your scale knowledge to the next level:

Our one stop music theory guide:

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[clear_gray_sky]

This is exactly how music theory should be taught . Great job

[Hamfaxer]

I've been playing piano for 10 years, and only now i understand in the minutes of your video how a scale, starting elsewhere than C, really works. This is the end of my suffering. Thank you & greetings from Vlaanderen in Belgium !

[MagicPlayaFTW]

“Every sound you hear comes from an object that is vibrating!”

“My psychiatrist says otherwise.”

[johnwilson]

Excellent!
I am amazed at the spontaneity of your explanation. It's really so clear that any common man can also understand the music content. Thank you LANDR.❤️

[maxwelltre]

This was immensely useful. I always tried to learn things about scales but it never quite sat right. This is the first thing that I’ve ever watched where why flat/sharp can be the same key but a seemingly different note by name. Explained very well here, thank you!

[nahidsharmin]

Wow you’re an angel! You taught me more than I learned about music theory scavenging the internet for the last couple of months 💖

[xXToxicCandyMakerXx]

This video is very comprehensive, the visuals are very helpful too. How would the pattern work in different instruments. Is it possible to translate this method to guitar, uke, etc? I'd like to see a part two. Thanks a lot

[trentonbennettVO]

Thank you! This was extremely helpful. I had a very negative experience in school being taught this and it left me quietly anxious about my knowledge - a mental block had fallen over me and yet I was still singing and playing instruments and pretty good at sight reading and playing by ear. So I felt like an imposter because I was skilled but so ignorant.
This simple, cheerful video gave me my lightbulb moment. Thank you.

[milkycloud.]

I'm teaching myself guitar in quarantine and in my gap year before uni. Thank you so much! This clears a lot of things and I'll definitely check out other of your videos to enhance my musical knowledge. Although I was still confused with the white keys being semitones.

[alek]

So good. Quick and to the point. Thank you.

[MrMrJameskeegan]

Excellent lesson, very professional video, and fun. Really accessible, and able too take complex things and describe it in simple language, isn't easy.

[TimaDheere]

Thank YOU! You have explained this the easiest way possible.

[jerryboby]

Absolutely brilliant. I wanted so hard to learn the basic yet "hearing all the time" theory of music. Thanks a lot for this. I'm very happy

[Zeoxis]

Thank you for making it easy to build a base of understanding with this info!

[mihirhardas]

Very nicely explained... In simple language!

[noahbowman]

I just starting to learn piano and guitar! Every time I heard someone say “play this in c major” or something to that extent, I had absolutely no idea what they were talking about and made me feel like a noob! Very informative video!

[Gian]

The best tutorial! Perfectly explained! Thank you very much 🙏❤

[khumbomunsaka]

Thanks. Useful video. She highlights things others won't, others won't even mention.

Thank you ma'am

[aaroniqbal]

this video is so good, im very invested

[doreen]

Thank you and love yr simple yet clear teaching. Awesome