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← C𝄫 Major on Piano

C𝄫 Major — In Sixths

Scales in sixths spread the hands further apart than scales in thirds, training the ear and hands on the sweeter harmonic interval associated with parallel motion in Romantic-era piano literature. Both hands move in parallel a diatonic sixth apart.

Engraved by Verovio 6.2.0-43f8060 3 title C𝄫 Major — In Sixths
Engraved by Verovio 6.2.0-43f8060 2 3 4 title C𝄫 Major — In Sixths
Verovio
Tempo120 bpm

Audio source: tonejs-instruments by Nick Brosowsky (MIT)

Keyboard — in sixths
1 oct3 oct
B𝄫D𝄫E𝄫G𝄫A𝄫B𝄫C𝄫F𝄫

Related scales

RelativeA𝄫 Natural MinorSame seven notes, tonic on the 6th degree — your access to the related minor key.ParallelC𝄫 Natural MinorSame tonic, the parallel minor — the deepest mode flip in tonal music.Up a fifthG𝄫 MajorOne sharp brighter on the circle of fifths.Up a fourthF𝄫 MajorOne flat darker on the circle of fifths.One note differentC𝄫 LydianRaise the 4th — the bright, floating Lydian colour.One note differentC𝄫 MixolydianLower the 7th — folk, blues-rock, Celtic vocabulary.SubsetC𝄫 Pentatonic MajorFive notes from the same scale — the bedrock pentatonic.ExoticC𝄫 Harmonic MajorBorrow the ♭6 from minor — operatic edge, IV / iv6 colour.

Same presentation in other keys