Undisclosed

3y

Hey dude, don’t know if this got answered at all but in the case of a C# Major Scale you WOULD use E# and B# because you’re right, you do not want double notation. You would spell the scale as C#, D#, E#, F#, G#, A#, B#

It’s not that the notes E# and B# don’t exist, it’s that they’re not commonly used. It’s called enharmonics which means a note can sound the same, but be spelled differently like D# = Eb.

You can see the E# being used elsewhere in an F# Major Scale since it’s the leading town of F#: F# G# A# B C# D# E#.

Same thing works for flats too, a Cb is the same as a B so you wouldn’t commonly see it but it exists. A Cb Major Scale would be: Cb, Db, Eb, Fb (enharmonic equivalent of E natural), Gb, Ab, Bb

Undisclosed

3y

@Danny if you ever have any questions feel free to hit me in discord lol I went to school for music so I know this s*** like the back of my hand

Danny

3y

I am currently studying some music theory and I had a question about it. I hope my fellow and kind KTT2 users can help me out. Say we’d construct a C# major scale which should look like this given the half steps between note 3 & 4 and note 7 & 8 (the octave): C# D# F F# G# A# C C# but instead it actually appears to be C# D# E# F# G# A# B# C# . The changes we see are F & C substituted by E# & B#. Now from what I understand, there’s not really a E# & B# since they are F & C but they can act as such? Now my question is, is this done to avoid double notation (e.g. the F F# & C C#). And if so, I presume this would be the case in all other similar instances too? I thank you for your time and help.