Hey everyone, I just need help with something.
Can you please type out the flute chromatic scale, with the Major scale as A#.
That would be great (p.s- going up till 26 notes)
Thank you so much

God Bless

Love Always: Yalda.

Hello Yalda,
The chromatic scale is simply a run of notes which goes up (or down) by half-steps. If you start on A# and go up, it would be...

A#, B, C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, ...

Going down...

Bb, A, Ab, G, Gb, F, E, Eb, D, Db, C, B, Bb, ...

Oh, and it's very important, if you don't C#, you'll Bb! (that's a joke

Jim

Most books have a fingering chart in the front or back. Just read up one note at a time (starting on the desired pitch) and when you get to the top (desired ending pitch) just turn back and go down. That is probably the easiest way (and you can check fingerings as you go.

@ Jim- thanks a bunch . . .
Now, if only I knew the notes (on whole notes), and the fingerings lol ;$ ...
I'm in grade 8, and my teacher is making is do this, i Hate it (no offense)...
@ Piccolo- thanks, but there is like 3 sections of different notes, and i really don't know which one to choose. Also, there is different notes, so i don't know which on to choose . . .



I wish I could understand music, lol.
It's all so much for me to get, although I hate my music teacher,
Everyone in my class hates the teacher, and the music it self (no offense again) ..


Again, thanks, lets just hope i can get the notes, and the fingerings !

It sounds like you may be having trouble reading the note on the music staff? Each of the 5 lines and four spaces between them correspond to notes. The clef we use is called a treble clef or G clef. Notice that the clef symbol has a loop that circles the second line from the bottom - that's the G line. The five lines are E, G, B, D, and F. The four spaces are F, A, C, and E. It may help you if you remember "Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge" for the lines or the word "FACE" for the spaces. The notes continue both below the staff to D, C, and B, and above the staff up many additional spaces and lines. The notes run A through G and then start over at A. Have a look at your fingering chart now and see if it makes any more sense.

Music is something that you have to work hard on for quite a while before you get to the point where you are capable of playing moderately difficult tunes, but my experience is that in the future you will appreciate the results. See if you can find a simple duet book to start with. You might find a classmate to play them with. Hopefully you will get hooked up with a teacher you like before getting discouraged completely.

Jim

In order to play a chromatic scale (or any scale, BTW) on the flute you need to understand a minimum basis of music notation and be able to relate the notes as written on the staff to the fingerings on a book.

This is something that could be described in written here as other members here have attempted, but it is not so simple. Now, if you have a teacher, no matter how hatred he/she could be, these should be his/her initial lessons:

how to hold the instrument
how to blow on it to make it sound
teach the basic keying for a simple major scale
explain what a chromatic scale is (it has been told in this thread) and how to key it.

If he/she doesn't do this, what is her role in the class?

But I suspect she does (or she assumes you already now that), but the students are not paying him/her any attention because they have decided they hate this teacher (I am not saying that this could be unjustified).

This is the first problem to correct. Even if you learn the A chromatic scale or any other scale, you will not make much progress if you (Students) keep going against the teacher.

Sorry if I sound too direct, but I was a young student myself (though long ago) and I know these kind of problems we also suffered.

The chromatic scale consists of all of the half steps in our traditional scale.
It will always be the same 12 notes no matter what pitch that you start on.
There is nothing unique to the notation of any flute chromatic scale over any other instrument in the same range.

Here is a chromatic scale of one octave (from C to C) with enharmonic equivalents (two notes with the same fingerings) in parentheses:

C-(C# or Db)-D-(D# or Eb)-E-F-(F# or Gb)-G-(G# or Ab)-A-(A# or Bb)-B-C


Many 1st year students may have learned most to alll of these fingerings within one octave but not realize it. For example, a young player may know Bb but not have been taught that it's the same fingering as the A#. If there is some fingering or enharmonic that you don't know, google: " flute fingering chart ". Learning to read a fingering chart is like learning to read a dictionary. Beware: Fingering charts for the flute aren't always written out chromatically.

Some other possible Enharmonic notes that aren't so easy to find in fingering charts:
(E#=F) (Fb=E) (B#=C) (Cb=B)

Although these enharmonic notes are the same sounding pitches on a typical keyboard instrument, there are several reasons why they should not be thought of as being the same note. Example: (C# or Db) may be considered to have the same fingering but they aren't to be thought of as being the same note.

In finger exercises, the chromatic scale may be written with the sharps going up and flats going down but because the chromatic scale is written in relation to the tonality (Key signature) of the piece of music, the enharmonic accidentals must have a relation to the chord progressions. For example, it is possible to have double sharps or double flats in writing a chromatic scale. So, writing out any specific chromatic scale from the original description may be difficult.

Ohmygosh, thanks so much, i love this website, everyone knows so much .

I really like this website, it will help me alot !
(http://www.jennifercluff.com/flutefingeringchart.pdf)


@ Jim- thanks, i know the basics of that stuff, like every good boy deserves fudge, thanks anways.
I just don't get the half notes, and quarter notes, lol.

Thanks for the help again everyone, i really needed it !


Love Always:
Yalda.

A short lesson in rhythm then

One of the most common "time signatures" music is written in is 4/4, which means each measure or bar gets 4 beats and a quarter note is one beat. A single measure can then contain 4 quarter notes each getting one beat, two half notes each getting 2 beats, or one whole note getting all four beats.

A whole note is written as a hollow oval or circle over the line or space on the staff for it's pitch. A half note is written as a hollow oval with a vertical line going up or down. A quarter note is written as a filled in oval with a vertical line going up or down.

There are also further divisions of rythym: eigth notes, sixteenth notes, thirty-secondth notes, triplets, sextuplets, quintuplets, and maybe others. Measures can be filled with combinations of notes and corresponding rests that generally total up to full 4 beats in 4/4 time.

If you were to write a scale using whole notes, each measure has one whole note in it.

Jim