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Skill: Note #7

We often think of a scale having 8 notes in it within an octave. But actually there are only 7 notes. Notes 1 and 8 are really the same note, the Home note, an octave apart. We'll talk more about octaves later, but you can think of note 8 as the same note as note 1 only higher. We use the first 7 letters of the alphabet, ABCDEFG, to refer to specific notes, and then we start over. In the same way we use the numbers 1-7 to refer to notes of the scale, and then we start over. (1234567123...) The important thing to know is that in the pattern of notes that is the major scale, notes 7 and 1 are consecutive notes, and they are only a half-step apart. Most notes of the scale are a whole-step apart, but there are two places where the notes are only a half-step apart. 7 and 1 is one of them. (171 171 171) No matter where the Home note is, note 7 is a half-step below it. As far as its position on the staff goes, if the Home note, note #1, is on a space, then note #7 is on a line just below it. If the Home note is on a line, note #7 is on the next lower space.

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