In the next chapter, The Keyboard and the Grand Staff, we will see that having multiple clefs makes reading different ranges easier. A clef indicates which pitches are assigned to the lines and spaces on a staff. The Notation of Notes, Clefs, and Ledger Lines chapter introduced four clefs: treble, bass, alto, and tenor. These theorists used more than seven letters of the Greek alphabet to name pitches. For example, some ancient Greek music theorists did not accept octave equivalence. More information about this concept can be found in the next chapter, The Keyboard and the Grand Staff. This loop of letter names exists because musicians and music theorists today accept what is called octave equivalence, or the assumption that pitches separated by an octave should have the same letter name. After G these letter names repeat in a loop: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C, etc. Music notes must be played successively from left to right to obtain the ascending scale, or from right to left for the descending scale.In Western musical notation, pitches are designated by the first seven letters of the Latin alphabet: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. You will notice that only the white piano keys are used. The leading Tone of G Major is F sharp, because F sharp is the degree VII and is distant to a seventh major of the tonic, or an half step (semitone ) lower than the tonic). Parallel Key of G Major (or homonymous key) is G minor scale, here is the G harmonic minor scale : The relative minor key of G Major is E minor and below if the E minor natural scale: Parallel Key of G Major Here is G major scale in most common clefs: treble clef, bass clef, tenor clef and alto clef.īelow is the F major scale in treble clef:īelow is the F major scale in tenor clef: The key signature of G Major has only one sharp (1♯).

: 1 Tone / 1 Tone / 1 semitone / 1 Tone / 1 Tone / 1 Tone / 1 semitone

:1 Whole step / 1 Whole step / 1 half step / 1 Whole step / 1 Whole step / 1 Whole step / 1 half step Like all other major scales, G major scale is composed by this sequence of whole steps and half steps (tones and semitones ): The names of the notes in the G major scale are: G A B C D E F♯ The G major scale has just a single sharp (1 ♯) and according to the order of sharps it is the F sharp (F♯).

B flat major scale tenor clef