Aced it on the first go. Knowing F-C-G-D-A-E-B and imagining Mr Cato’s trick made it possible to do the scales in keys I haven’t fully remembered yet
Edit: I realize now I could of done T-T-S-T-T-T-S instead but I guess I’ve been too focused on trying to remember the scales and didn’t even think about it
I guess the exam has been updated, but my point is exactly the same; I have enjoyed a lot the test, but when I reached question 3 about minor pentatonic scale I was puzzled: this was not part of any previous lesson as fast as I know.
I’m pretty happy I got a 100% and it took me about 10 minutes. I’m not bragging, I’m just thrilled. This means I know more about music theory than I have ever known in my life thanks to this course. Awesome.
I did awesome in this. I do have to ask though, for a person who doesn’t plan on learning notation or tablature at all, how practical is learning just the number of flats/sharps in a specific key or how to recognize a key signature by the number of flats/sharps? Is that something I’m going to need if I plan on purely learning by ear?
The biggest advantage it will give you is you could look at a piece of sheet music and know what key it was in so you’d know what the chords would most likely be and what key to use if you were to solo over it without knowing how to read the actual Sheet music. Just by know how many sharps or flats are in the song.
Like everything in music there are exceptions to the rule.
Even playing by ear you need to know what notes are in each scale to help you figure out the most likely chords.
94% Made a silly mistake on the major scale intervals and put the T T S T T T S starting from the 1st note rather than the second. Looking forward to the next course. Really excellent and well explained. Thanks.
All seven letters must be used once and once only.
No letter can be used more than once.
To ensure this rule is adhered to names using enharmonic equivalents must be used.
I hope that helps.
Cheers
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