Music & Integers

Music & Integers

• This is a musical staff.

• Putting a note on different parts of the staff represents a different pitch.

Each line or space is named with a letter.

C

A

E

• A group of these notes make up a scale.

C D E F G A B C

This is the C scale

• ALL popular songs have a ROOT SCALE.

…that is, they start out using a certain set of notes.

• …usually the song will change scales in the middle.

…but then return to its root scale to end the song

• Every scale has a base note. The scale is built around this base note.

C scale What do you think the base note of this scale is?

• A song is made up of notes around the base note of a scale. • Listen

• You can kind of think of the base note of a scale as “0” on the number line.

G Scale