With too many big ones, then fewer notes (than the standard 7) can fit in the scale. For some scales have larger intervals between some of their member notes (aka degrees). (And the fact of these two types of standard-sized building-block intervals, is why such music is called "diatonic".) But some scales break this. Standard 'diatonic' scales are collections of notes with either "tones" (aka "whole-steps") or "semitones" (aka half steps") in-between them. (The 2nd, 4th and 5th generally serve other functions.) If the scale (or chord) has neither (or both) it is ambiguously-hard to say whether it's major of minor, although the nature can be suggested (and/or indirectly stated) by the kinds of 6ths and 7ths which may be present. (Because it's the 6th mode of the diatonic major scale, but no need to get into that now.) In addition to the mandatory flatted (or "minor") 3rd, it also has its 6th and 7th degrees flatted by a half-step as well.īut whether it is minor or major is only based on whether there's a note a step-and-a half up from the root, or if there is one, two whole steps up from the root, respectively. Now when someone refers to a scale just as a "minor" scale, it's assumed they mean the "Natural Minor" scale. But their names and definitions are the same (as long as all the notes, have basically the same relationship with the tonic/root/reference). These are called inversions, and they can sound slightly different.
no matter what key they're in (The notes in chords may be in different orders. If the collection of notes are spaced the same (relative to the reference note), then the scale and/or chord is the same kind. In other words, they're just collections of -spaces- in between notes, relative to a given reference (aka 'tonic' for scales, 'root' for chords). Similarly, scales (and chords, which are simultaneously-played subsets of scales) are just collections of intervals. at least not as far as their definitions are concerned.) And it makes no difference at all who makes them. It's like asking if a Ford automobile is the same as a Ford car? Every car is an automobile.
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