In music, a scale is a series of notes arranged by pitch, with each note assigned a degree. The first note is the tonic, and the seventh is the leading tone. Scales can be major or minor and have a specific pattern of whole and half steps. Knowing scales and degrees is necessary for understanding melody and harmony in music. Different genres of music use different scales and modes. For example, Indian classical music uses ragas, and traditional Chinese music uses the pentatonic scale. Understanding scales and degrees is fundamental to music theory and necessary for creating or analyzing music.
Pitches in music are given specific names and are called notes.
The musical alphabet consists of 7 letters or notes: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G.
These same notes can also be described using other naming systems, including tonic solfa and technical names.
According to C major scale,
