Re: Question re degrees of the scale (and my intro to this group)

Neil <nhmiller@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> David Webber wrote:
>> Scales are only scales - finger exercises. ?They have
>> little other significance.
> You can't be the author of a music book and actually mean that. I
> apologize for my tone, but please don't profess such things -- someone
> might believe you!
> I've had 100s of start-over students come to me who could not identify
> what key the music is in, and then they wonder why it takes them so
> long to learn a piece and can't memorize it. Understanding how scales
> are generated based on the interval of a fifth, and how they sonically
> and structurally relate to each other is essential to being a
> musician.

So in your scheme of things the wholetone scale doesn't exist?

Fifth relation****ps matter for some music some of the time but
have nothing to do with the basic concept of "scale".

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