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The terms "scale" and "mode" are often used interchangeably, but strictly speaking, there is a significant difference between them in music theory. Although they may share the same set of notes, a scale and a mode or modal scale are not the same thing. It's important to note that a scale and a mode can contain the same notes.

That is the age old question when learning a musical instrument. This lesson explores that foundation needed for various styles of music and what would you need to be successful with each style.

For all the advantages that the Internet offers and there are many of them, it seems to be having one particularly bad effect.

Just what is "Up, Down, Ascending, Descending, Higher, Lower, Top, Bottom" as related to music?

What is up, down, higher, lower, top, bottom, ascending, descending on a guitar? Up, down, higher, lower, top, bottom, ascending, descending should refer to musical pitch and not to direction as we know it. Up and higher refers to the raising of musical pitch. Down and lower refer to the lowering of musical pitch. Top refers to the upper note of a chord voicing or musical phrase and bottom refers to the lowest note.

The distance between any two notes can be defined by steps - half steps, whole steps, semi-tones, whole tones. From this series of steps you can get the names of the notes of ANY of the fifteen major scales.

The "Whole Tone scale" is a symmetrical scale with an equal distance been each note or scale degree.

Too many chord shapes to memorize Hopefully, that is something you might have realized after three months into the Chord a Day saga. There are way too many chord shapes to memorize.

Harmonic Analysis (RMA) Worksheet for the song: Wildwood Flower.

Harmonic Analysis (RMA) Worksheet for: "TEMPLATE / Working Song" used for local dev when create a new RMA/HA for a song in the Daily Ukulele book.

Harmonic Analysis (RMA) Worksheet for the song: "Yankee Doodle Boy".

Harmonic Analysis (RMA) Worksheet for the song the Beatles classic: Yellow Submarine.

Harmonic Analysis (RMA) Worksheet for the song: "You Are My Sunshine".

Your first ukulele chord is typically an open position "C Major Chord." It's only one finger and ukulele players love to show new players this, the easiest, usable ukulele chord for new players. Especially someone coming from guitar where an open position C major is three fingers and not that easy as the first chord.

Harmonic Analysis (RMA) Worksheet for the song: "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah".