Scale Lesson 20

C Major Scale is built the same way we have built every other major scale.  Start on an C and use the formula:

W W H W W W H

We get:

C D E F G A B C

Therefore the key of  C  major doesn't have any sharps or flats.

C Major Pentatonic

Build by removing the 4th and 7th degree of the any major scale to make it pentatonic.  In the case of the C major scale, we would remove the F and B.  We are left with C major pentatonic:

C D E G A

This scale was found in Lesson 17 on the old site.  It will be moved to the new Lesson 20.  That lesson also covered a scale pattern and a 3 note/string C major scale.