I need help with major scales...
 

So, I like music, but I'm new to reading it and stuff. I just joined a band class and I don't understand my HW assignment. It's to write down as sheet music each of the major scales... I don't really understand what that means. Some help would be nice. Thanks!

Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do = major scale /music101

Thankyou... So with that, and a little bit of researching and youtube videos and stuff, I have a better idea of what I'm suppost to do... I'm a little confused about the whole... "whole whole half whole whole whole half" thing. I mean, I already know what a whole step and a half step is, but, say I wanted to put a half step from A... How do I know when I'm suppost to use A sharp or B flat? (if you get what I'm asking...)

When you're writing out scales, you always use the next sequential letter. So if you wrote A and needed to write a half step away from it, it would be a Bb. That's why some scales have double sharps or double flats, to keep the scale in order. That way when you look at it on a staff it goes up the staff the same way a C scale would (but starting at a different spot).

@OP: Do you know if you're supposed to write the scales with key signature or with accidentals?

here are all the Diatonic Modes...Ill do them out of the Key of C so as not to use flats or sharps

I - Ionian - Considered THE Major scale. The third note is an E in a Major 3rd position in relation to the root C so it is implying that it is a Major scale. The 7th is also Major...It goes:

C - D - E - F - G - A - B - C

ii Dorian --utilizes the same notes as in C Ionian but starts on the the second note ( "D")......Its 3rd note falls into a minor position relative to the root D, so it is implied as a Minor based scale

D - E - F - G - A - B - C - D

iii Phrygian - starts on an E in the key of C...its third note, the G, is in a minor position in relation to the root E

E - F - G - A - B - C - D - E

IV Lydian...starts on the F out of Key of C. The third note, A, is in a major position relative to the F, so it is Major

F - G - A - B - C - D - E - F

V Mixolydian...starts on the G out of Key of C. The third note, B, is in a major position relative to the G, so it is Major

G - A - B - C - D - E - F - G

vi Aeolian -- Considered the MINOR scale. The third note, C, is in a minor position to the A root in the Key of C

A - B - C - D - E - F - G - A

vii Locrian -- Is a minor scale ( the third note "D" in a minor position relative to the root B) but it is also considered half-diminished because the 5th note, F, is in a fklatted 5th position in relation to the key "B")

B - C - D - E - F - G - A - B



So, for Diatonic Modes: Ionian, Lydian, and Mixolydian are Major Modes

There are many substitution modes not considered diatonic that are major but im sick of typing :)

It really isn't any more complicated than that.

Pretty sure he's just writing out the major scales in all the different keys, so he only needs Ionian.

Yes this is what he needs: