scales anyone? CAn`t tell, Please help

    
scales anyone? CAn`t tell, Please help    17:46 on Friday, September 23, 2005          
(bxiong06)
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I cant tell which notes are flats, natural, or sharp on scales. Please help. For example. a G major scale. I don`t know what note flats, natural, or sharp are suppose to be played, please help. I`m a new learner.


Re: scales anyone? CAn`t tell, Please help    04:07 on Saturday, September 24, 2005          
(bob)
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g major has a sharp (#) which is F sharp. you play all other notes in natural (unless otherwise stated), there`ll be no flats. so when you play F note, you play F sharp, unless it indicated otherwise before the F note that it should be played as natural, then you play it as natural.

hope this helps.


Re: scales anyone? CAn`t tell, Please help    11:09 on Saturday, September 24, 2005          
(bxiong06)
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yes that helps, but i keep on hearing my teacher telling me us to play a flat somewhere in a Piece in G major.


Re: scales anyone? CAn`t tell, Please help    14:53 on Sunday, September 25, 2005          
(Brooke)
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She may be telling you that you are playing flat...that could be the case, but if you are supposed to use a flat it will say so at the begging of each line of music.


Re: scales anyone? CAn`t tell, Please help    18:11 on Sunday, September 25, 2005          
(bxi06)
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i`m playing " in the hall of the mounting king " in a G major. It seems like there a B flat in there Playing on the A string(that`s where my teacher keeps on saying). But i don`t see any where on the piece that tells me that i should play a B flat.


Re: scales anyone? CAn`t tell, Please help    19:38 on Sunday, September 25, 2005          
(Godzillaviolist)
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It`s probably an accidental. There are notes that are outside the key signature. There will be a little indication of a flat, which looks like a "b", which mean that the b after that will be played flat. There are other rules too, which you should really ask your teacher about.

Some of the posts on here make me worry about the quality of teaching some recieve. It is not enough to play well; learning to read music is just as important.


   




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