doh!... see mate.. when you play a scale, it is only a SCALE and not just a sequence of notes, (one after the other), in relation to WHAT you are playing it OVER.. and all bits of music have a KEY SIGNATURE..
ok.. so if you are in a key of C.. playing a major scale produces no sharp notes or flat notes.. all the notes in a C major scale are straight notes.. C,D,E,F,G,A,B,C
BUT... if you change the key to C#.. then playing the same major scale with the correct relative distances to create a major scale WILL play :
C#, D#, F, F#, G#, Bflat, C, C#
on the music sheet on the stave next to the time-signature (4/4. 2/4, 3/8 etc etc) you'll see some sharp or flat symbols arranged... it may be only one sharp icon or it may be several...
this cluster of sharp or flat icons sitting on their own note/pitch-lines on the stave says: EVERYTIME YOU PLAY THIS NOTE.. SHARPEN IT, OR FLATTEN IT... this saves the writer & reader having to write a sharp symbol or flat symbol everyime one occurs in the music as part of the natural key the piece is written in...
so the musician reading it sees the key-sig.. and say.. "aha!!.,. this piece is in G... so i'll play G,A,B,C,D,E,F#,G to play a major scale"... so rather than having the F# sharp symbol strewn all over the music everytime there is an 'F' note, the key sig places a sharp icon on the stave on 'F' key...
G-maj has 1-sharp... D-maj has 2-sharps... E-maj has 4-sharps.. etc - To identify a key-sig, the last sharp on the stave is the one before the Key.. so the last sharp of the key-sig' of D-maj scale is C#
after that, on the sheet music where a note IS flattened or sharpened relative to the KEY, then you DO add a sharp or flat symbol... so as you can see, NOT having a sharp or flat symbol on the music where they naturally occur in that key makes it simpler to see the notes that HAVE been sharpened or flattened within the piece when a sharp or flat symbol appears, amd makes the music less messy & cluttered with sharp & flat icons...
ok.. take another scale...G#-Major
the scale is:
G#, Bflat, C, C#, D#, F, G, G#
as you can see, the Key contains alot of sharps & one flat.. now here it gets wierd.. you dont call A# - A#.. dont ask me the fuck why, you call A#, 'B-FLAT'
so where there is a FLAT note in the KEY-SIGNATURE, all the other notes are converted to FLAT'S instead of sharps as far as I know (fuck i wish I could find that RCM theory book... so the key-signature icons for G#-major is written on the stave as:
Aflat (G#), Bflat(C#), C, D-flat(C#), E-flat(D#), F, G, A-flat(G#)
those are the notes that are played sharp/flat... yeah.. exactly, it is looney toons huh!!..
anyways.... so your arrangements of notes there if started on the first note you show.. is: fucking wierd !! :-)
ha ha ha - i dunno what the fuck it is.. but it doesnt resolve to an octave.... it starts in G# - so assuming that is the Root,
then it goes up a semitone.. it has a minor 3rd.. so it is minor.. but i'm not sufficiently a music theorist to tell you what it is called if the 2nd is flattened ... um... flat_11??... anyone ?? -
if you work back & start on E instead, it seems to have a structure of
E-minor with a flat-5, then it carries on a minor scale of E but flattens the octave to E-flat/D#...
..facking ell !!!... anyone know it - basically mate if you keep the notes the same, but add an extra note and start on E, then sharpen the last note on your scale you'll have a minor
I think therefore it is: E_minor-harmonic with a flat5.. :-)
do i win a fiver?.. & does it actually matter??...