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What is scale degree?
- October 1, 2021
- Posted by: Shachar Goldberg
- Category: Piano lesson
פוסט זה זמין גם ב: עברית (Hebrew)
Hello everyone. Today I would like to talk about an important subject. In my previews posts, I talked about that we have lots of different structures in music. basically what I mean is that we can hear multiple elements that repeat in every song. If you listen carefully you can find almost in every Pop Song “chord progression” (more on that in future posts) that repeat across all song. Sometimes we can call it “Loop”. But how and where do we play those “chord progressions”? Here comes a new friend call ” scale degree “.
Now you probably asking yourself What is a ” Scale degree “? Scale degree is a structure. For example, in the structure of the C Major Scale, I put a number for every individual note. C is 1 D is 2 and so on… If you noticed I put * on the seventh “B Half-Dim ” because it is the most difficult one to understand . so for now we are not talking about this degree. But you can see in the picture how ” scale degree ” works. we take the 1-3-5 and name it to chord ” C “. Then we took the second one 2-4-6 (D-F-A) and name it to chord ” Dm “. now we can see different chords that are divided into two kinds of chords. One is Major the second one is Minor. In Music, the symbol for Minor chords is “m” For example we have the chord C (when we write the letter ” C ” is a C Major chord) on the other hand we have Cm ( when we add the letter ” m ” we basically mean that this is a Minor chord). That’s it for today, hope you find this information helpful. If you love music and want to learn more about it make sure to follow my blog where I upload lots of content that can help you be a better player.
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