How to Read a D# Major Scale

Video Transcript

"We have now learned how to play a D sharp minor scale on the violin. Let's look at it on the staff paper. Look, look, yes look at this D sharp minor scale. Do you know what this is? The key signature, of course right you see the sharps. It tells you where to apply the sharps in a piece or for example this scale. Let's see our first scale degree is one so we put a one under D sharp. Two you see we have this V because between two and three are half steps so this V represents that's right a half step. F sharp is three, four goes under G sharp because it is a fourth scale degree. Five, see the V, half steps, five six and a minor scale. Seven is a C sharp and D sharp is an eight."