Author: Bgoodson
Date: 2019-10-28 03:37
Hate to revive a decade old post, but in case any one stumbles on this like I did....
Bob, all major scales do not need accidentals, that is correct. However there are 3 minor scales... if you don't take modal music into account. Natural, melodic, and harmonic. The natural minor scale has no accidentals but the other two do. The melodic minor scale has a sharped 6 and 7 when ascending and natural when descending. So for A minor we would see a b c d e f# g# a going up and a g f e d c b a down. Harmonic minor has a sharp 7... leading to an augmented 2nd in the scale which is supposed to be"against the rules" too. The more you learn about music theory the more you realise that every rule has an exception.
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