There’s More to Playing the Piano

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Chapter 24 - The Chromatic Scale

The Chromatic Scale is the scale that comprises every possible note – all the white notes and all the black notes – within the octave. There are various ways to notate the chromatic scale. The version above is the harmonic chromatic scale. The easiest way to construct the scale this way is to draw the tonic (1), dominant (5) and tonic (8), then draw each other note twice, then add the necessary accidentals. If the resulting scale is superimposed over a sustained C, it avoids all augmented and diminished intervals apart...

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