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Scales in Music: switching Scales in songs and compositions

There are so many possible scales in music and so many combinations and changes possible that sometimes musicians wonder if there are certain rules or combinations that work best. And yes there are!

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The Advanced Singing Scales dictionary includes every (popular) scale on the planet and was developed to give you fast access to the music theory of all the scales.

Table of Scale Modes: understanding Scales and Music Theory fundamentals
Modes are just another word used for scales. It goes back to the Middle Ages and Renaissance periods. In these times an important start was made for organizing the melodic and harmonic elements of mus

Scales Music Theory: What is a scale, and which are important.
Scales are as important to music as words are to language. So you know a scale uses a number of notes but is there any logic behind it? And how can you learn to understand them and use them? And why a

Songwriting Scales: Melody and Chords
To really understand what makes some notes work or not in a melody we are going to try and listen again to different chords and notes. In this next example the A minor chord is played again and we are

Melody Writing: Music Scales
When you are writing a melody for a song or music you can use any type of scale. But there are only a limited number of scales that are useful in popular music. Not because more exotic scales can not

Melody Writing: Songwriting Scales
As explained in the previous songwriting and melody writing lesson only certain scales are usually used for songs and songwriting. But that doesn't mean you simply can mix all those notes together in

Melody Writing: More Songwriting Scales
For the melody you will usually not simply want to start mixing all notes from each scale, or all scales. When you write songs you can simply use the scales to create more interesting chords and chord

Melody Writing: Simple Songwriting Scales
Let's take a look at some of the complex scales and a simple scale, and how you can use it for songwriting and melody writing.
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Songwriting Scales: Chords and Complex Harmonies
When you start adding a melody to a chord progression you are simply creating complex chords or harmonies. But of course it depends on the notes you add to the chord with the melody. Let's take a look

Songwriting Scales: Chords and Starting Notes
In the previous example we used a "weird" note that was not in the chord to create some complex harmonies. You can of course do this with any note, but should you? Let's take another example.
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