Musicians simply must know their scales and he came up with a papercraft slide rule for major and minor scales. The system is very easy to use. He’s uploaded PDF files that let you print out the ...

In music, an interval is the distance ... of the note relative to its scale. Chords are numbered in Roman numerals. For example, in the scale of C major, the chords are numbered like this: An ...

The shapes, both major and minor ... than playing notes from a scale. I’ve chosen the D shape in the key of A major here. First, I’m sliding up to those intervals that actually form part ...

The reason for this is that it features a major 7th interval (1-2-b3-4-5-b6-7), making it one note different from the natural minor scale. While the natural minor and other major scale modes are ...