Post #3605956
2026-07-05 14:15 UTC
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@Gaolaitch@cupoftea.social 2026-07-05 14:23
@keefeglise@mastodonapp.uk @bytebro@mastodonapp.uk Jargon, innit. Chromatic means all the piano notes (black and white keys), as opposed to ‘diatonic’ which is only the seven white key notes = (for example) a major scale, and almost all folk tunes and nursery songs.
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@bytebro@mastodonapp.uk 2026-07-05 14:24
@keefeglise@mastodonapp.uk Forgive me if I'm 'teaching granny to suck eggs' here, but you did ask! Normal scale starts at a root, and progresses through some full tones and some semitones (white and black keys on a keyboard?) for the octave, so in the key of C as an example, it's all 'white notes', seven of them. A chromatic scale is *all* semitones, so imagine running the scale on a keyboard, but playing *every note*, whether white or black. There are 12 to an octave.