Yamaha Asianbeat 2003 Malaysia National Final
Dec 16, 2003 Events, Gallery, Uglymen
Date: 14th December 2003
Venue: Planet Hollywood, Kuala Lumpur
Time: 8pm
Champions: Uglymen
1st Runner-Up: The Believers
2nd Runner-Up: Wire – Jet
Best Vocalist: Rigid Ethnics
Best Guitarist: The Believers
Best Bassist: FlyShreder
Best Drummer: The Believers
Gb Major scale?
Dec 8, 2003 Music Articles
I found answer to the Gb major scale shown as: Gb Ab Bb Cb Db Eb F Gb I thought that there was no such thing as a Cb note, shouldn’t that be a B instead?
Answer
Actually there is a Cb, it just sounds exactly like a B. In a Gb major scale it is written as a Cb When you are spelling a Gb major scale you would not want to write it like this (Gb Ab Bb B Db Eb F Gb), you want every letter represented. So instead of B, you would write Cb Also if you look at the F# major scale ( F# G# A# B C# D# E# F#) there is an E# for the same reason. When a note sounds the same but is spelled different, the notes are called enharmonic (same note just called two different names). This is the same for C# Db, F# Gb etc., they are the exact same note, just written differently. What name you call a note by depends on the context. For example a Gb major and F# major scale are really just the same notes but they are “spelled” different. Most of the time when you are playing, or just naming notes on the fretboard there is not a good reason to call a note Cb,B#,Fb, or E#. But in music theory, in the context of specific chords and scales, it makes a difference.
In a major scale, all seven notes are represented by a different alphabet, example:
C major
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
C D E F G A B
C# major
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
C# D# E# F# G# A# B#
Note that in C# major, you can not change the last note of B# to be written as C, because this will make the alphabet C appears twice in the scale, and theoretically, it is wrong.