How many scales are there?
What are parent scales?
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Luke Butler
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Jacob Watson
there are three scales, the major, minor and modal and you choose them according to your mood
Jordan Torres
there is 1 scale
Josiah Taylor
What are the corresponding modes that are built from each scale degree? Melodic Mixolydian being one example.
Ryan Cruz
literally every different possible combination of notes is a different scale, also depends on which music tradition you're drawing from.
in western music the the most common are pentatonic, Ionian (major), Dorian, phrygian, Lydian, mixolydian, aeolian (natural minor), locrian, melodic minor, harmonic minor, and whole tone, but that's not counting like altered scales and stuff
again though, the actual number is in the thousands
Jason Smith
>12 major scales, 12 minor scales
>1 chromatic scale
>7 mode scales associated with each "key"
>>so say you have G major scale GABCDEF#
>>take these notes and start on A
>>>ABCDEF#G ---> this is the dorian scale associated with parent scale G major
>>>another example: DEFGABC is the D dorian scale which is associated with parent scale C major because its the notes of C major but you start on D
>>>>figure out the rest there I dont have time for this shit
>3 octatonic scales
>2 whole tone scales
>like 5 or so pentatonic scales idk you can really do a lot
>a bajillion other obscure ones
Ayden Thompson
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Asher Bell
The number of distinct scales is limited only by human hearing. It's very high, and there are many good sounding ones they will never teach you because musicians are scared of everything except 12EDO tuning.
Thomas Miller
I mean... How thorough of an answer do you want, OP? It's potentially kind of a big open-ended question if you want it to be.
Ian Garcia
look up the sloniminsky book
Levi Foster
Retard.
These guys are correct. There's thousands of scales (tempered and non-tempered systems, microtonal, diatonic, chromatic etc.) and you can create your own and derive them from anything either found in nature (acoustics), traditional/folk/art music or literally make them up (artificial scales).
Josiah Peterson
there are infinite scales. You can make up new scales, even without getting into microtones.
choose 16 different notes, then raise one note by 25 cents. Then lower another note by 25 cents. Bam, you have created a new scale.
Brody Diaz
>there are infinite scales
There are not, because the human ear does not have infinite resolution. If it's physically impossible to hear the difference then it's the same scale.
Colton Butler
This is why I said in my post that it's kind of a big question. There are dozens of different points at which you could draw the line between what does and doesn't count as a scale (or indeed a distinct note), and all of them will provide you with a different answer for the total number once you've done the maths.
If it's all possible permutations of the perceptible pitch-steps within the nominal range of human hearing that you decide to count as distinct scales, then (napkin maths here, don't quote me) that means there's something in the order of 2.7×10^421 unique scales, and 3.9×10^424 modes.
But even then, there's still issues, since even smaller pitch differences can be perceived as a difference pitch in the beating between larger intervals.
Oliver Cox
major and minor are modes - they're called Ionian and Aeolian
Jaxon Clark
Theoretically there is a finite number, I guess.
Xavier Rivera
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Parker Bell
>scales and keys are the same thing
No user, you are the brainlet.
Leo Williams
you won't need many scales. the main essential scales you'll need to know are the 7 diatonic modes (lydian, ionian, mixolydian, dorian, aeolian, phrygian, and locrian), and possibly some pentatonic scales that fit into these. modes of melodic and harmonic minor can be helpful too, the latter more so though. there's no definite number of scales and a lot of the ones that stray further from the diatonic 7 are super unstable and probably have little use outside of playing over certain chords, which may not even be something you'd wanna do.