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TerryCavanagh / boscaceoil

A simple music making program
http://boscaceoil.net/
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The "minor" scale is not, in fact, the minor scale. #103

Open El-Camel opened 10 months ago

El-Camel commented 10 months ago

I love Bosca Ceoil and use it with my students for its simplicity and beginner-friendliness, but the biggest educational quibble I have with it is the fact that the "minor" scale is not, in fact, the minor scale. It's the melodic minor scale, which is a variant minor scale, and that's confusing for my students. Seems weird to have a separate scale just for the harmonic minor scale but not for the melodic minor scale, and to leave the vanilla minor scale out entirely.

TerryCavanagh commented 10 months ago

Ahh! This is fantastic feedback, thank you. I am not musically trained, and I made this mistake because I just followed some beginner guides online about scales. (I've been told some of the others are wrong too).

To fix this, I should just rename the current Minor scale "melodic minor", right?

If you can provide details about what other scales should be called, any that might be wrong or any important scales that are missing, that would extremely useful - I don't know right now when there might be an update, but it would be great if an eventual update got this right.

JD557 commented 7 months ago

I also just bumped in this problem

To fix this, I should just rename the current Minor scale "melodic minor", right?

That's one option, but I think you should include the actual minor scale (natural minor scale).

Namely: