
They represent the pitch, speed, and rhythm of the song they convey, as well as expression and techniques used by a musician to play the piece. The symbols you see on pages of sheet music have been used for hundreds of years. Music notes must be played successively from left to right to obtain the ascending scale, or from right to left for the descending scale.Have you ever heard a song on the radio and thought, “Hey, it’d be really cool to know how to play that, I wonder what the music notes are?” Do you have friends who play musical instruments, and you want to join in on the fun? Do you want to expand your general artistic knowledge? Well, learning the basics of how to read sheet music can help you achieve all of these, and in a shorter amount of time than you might think!Īt its very simplest, music is a language just like you’d read aloud from a book. You will notice that only the white piano keys are used. The relative minor key of G flat Major is E flat minor and below if the E flat minor natural scale: G flat Major scale on a pianoīelow is the G flat Major scale on a piano: G flat Major scale in treble clef (G-clef)īelow is the G flat Major scale in treble clef:īelow is the G flat Major scale in bass clef:īelow is the G flat Major scale in alto clef:īelow is the G flat Major scale in tenor clef:Ĭlosely related keys of G flat Major are: Here is G flat Major scale in most common clefs: treble clef, bass clef, tenor clef and alto clef. The key signature of G flat Major has six flats (6♭). Here are triad chords for G flat Major scale:Ĭhord VII : F diminished (Notes: F A♭ C♭) The leading Tone of G flat Major is F, because F is the degree VII and is distant to a seventh major of the tonic, or an half step (semitone ) lower than the tonic). : 1 Tone / 1 Tone / 1 semitone / 1 Tone / 1 Tone / 1 Tone / 1 semitone

:1 Whole step / 1 Whole step / 1 half step / 1 Whole step / 1 Whole step / 1 Whole step / 1 half step Like all other major scales, G flat major scale is composed by this sequence of whole steps and half steps (tones and semitones ): The names of the notes in the G flat major scale are: G♭ A♭ B♭ C♭ D♭ E♭ F The G flat (G♭) major scale has six flats (6 ♭) and according to the order of flats they are the B flat, E flat, A flat, D flat, G flat and the C flat (B♭, E♭, A♭, D♭, G♭ & C♭).
