Diatonic Scales on a Sax: The Six-Scale Degree

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" For Expert Village this is Mitch Kaplan. In this segment we will be talking about the diatonic scales. Now, we go up one more, one more step, keeping consistent again with that major scale and we start on the F this time. Now because there are no flats or sharps consistent with every other note, we now have the major seven chord. There is a B flat in the major scale of F but because we are working with every other note, that is not included with the four notes that we are playing, so we have an F, we have an A, we have a C and we have an E. There is your F major seven. Going up one more we now have the five. The five is always known as the dominant seven chord. The dominant seven is an important chord because we always go from five to one most of the time, 90% of the time. Going from five to one, makes it easy for us to hear and we enjoy that sound, so again you would count five steps from C to G. We have C, D, E, F and G, start on G and we go every other note, so we have G, B, D and then F natural and this is what it sounds like together. Moving along we now have A minor seven, now the A minor seven is the other, the third of the minor chords built from the diatonic scale. Again we are just taking every note from and now we are starting on the six scale degree so we have A, we have C natural, we have E and we have G, beautiful sound. So this is a very important scale because again we have our six, now that would lead to the two, five, one if we wanted to progress to it. "