scale
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4.3
- noun
- /skeɪl/
- Specialized
:
escala (musical)
- Now let's try the G-major scale.
- diatonic scale
- pentatonic scale
- scale degrees
And you have to play scales, a lot of scales.
- And you have to play scales, a lot of scales.
- So is a descending scale music.
- Other words to really just get down and play the scales and something once or twice a week.
- Yeah, I'll practice scales and I'll try to really get the meaning out of the scale.
- One group, they'll come for two hours a day for five days and they'll practice these one handed scales and chords.
- And sometimes I felt people was going to get bored, which we just playing some guitarist stuff and like scales and really nice arrangement.
Examples
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Previous experience with the pentatonic scale and ostinati also aids in this activity.
Academic text (2015) -
And you have to play scales, a lot of scales.
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I provided each student with a scale sheet, and we learned the notes of the scale.
Academic text (2008) -
And last Thursday we were talking about melody in terms of scales, major scales, minor scales, chromatic scales.
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One group, they'll come for two hours a day for five days and they'll practice these one handed scales and chords.
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When I was little, even if I was just practicing scales, my father would press his back against the base of our upright piano with his eyes closed so that he could feel the vibrations of the piano strings.
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In music class, we practiced the scale by playing a series of notes in ascending order.
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The teacher asked us to learn the C-major scale for our lesson next week.
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Before playing the song, it is important to warm up by practicing the scale first.
Synonyms
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3.2
A set of notes ordered from low to high that form a basic pattern for melodies
Idioms
Compounds
- Archaic
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5.3
A scale that measures how strong an earthquake is from the waves recorded by machines
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3.9
A schedule that shows how much people are paid for different jobs or experience levels
- Specialized
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3.7
A set of seven notes with whole steps except half steps between the third and fourth and seventh and eighth
- Specialized
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3.2
A set of notes ordered from low to high that form a basic pattern for melodies
- Specialized
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5.2
A balance with a long bar that turns and uses a sliding weight to measure how heavy something is
- Specialized
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6.0
A pattern of seven notes that makes the familiar major and minor sounds
- Specialized
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4.6
A musical scale that sounds sad because some notes are lower than in a major scale
- Specialized
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3.0
A system for measuring how hot something is using units like Celsius and Fahrenheit
- Specialized
A small brown insect that lives on plants, drinks their juice and weakens them
A temperature scale where 0 degrees is water's freezing and 100 degrees its boiling
- Archaic
A way to measure temperature where water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees
- Specialized
A scale that measures how high sea waves are, from 0 calm to 9 very large
- Specialized
A scale of numbers that shows wave height at sea from 0 calm to 9 very high
- Specialized
A temperature scale that starts at absolute zero, with zero as the lowest possible temperature
- Specialized
A small insect with a hard wax covering that sticks to leaves and stems
- Specialized
A way of showing time in a simulation so events take longer than in real life
A scale for measuring temperature where water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees
- Specialized
A way of running a simulation where time moves faster than real life
- Specialized
A common eight-note pattern in Western music with small steps between third and fourth and seventh and eighth
- Specialized
A scale that measures how strong an earthquake feels and how much damage it causes
- Specialized
A set of notes used in Western music that makes a piece sound sad
- Specialized
A scale that compares how easily minerals scratch each other, from soft talc to hard diamond
- Specialized
A musical scale with fewer than seven notes that leaves out some notes from the usual scale
- Specialized
A scale that shows how high sea waves and long smooth waves are
- Specialized
A temperature scale that starts at absolute zero and uses the same size degree as Celsius
- Specialized
A musical scale of eight notes that uses whole and half steps one after the other
- Specialized
A temperature scale that starts at absolute zero and uses degrees the same size as Fahrenheit
- Archaic
A temperature scale where water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 80 degrees
- Specialized
A number from 0 to 14 that shows how acidic or basic a liquid is, with 7 neutral
- Specialized
Partly refined paraffin wax made when oil is processed and used in industry
- Specialized
A system that gives numbers or levels to show how much of something there is
- Specialized
A way used in models to stretch time so events look slower than real life
- Specialized
A small insect with a soft, waxy covering that lives on plant stems and leaves
- Specialized
A small tool that measures weight or force by how much a metal coil stretches
- Specialized
A small extra ruler that slides along a larger ruler to measure very small lengths
- Specialized
A number scale from zero to twelve used worldwide to show how strong the wind is
How Many
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7.4
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4.3
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6.0
- Specialized
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7.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Scale (music) comes from a word meaning 'ladder', so you can imagine musical notes as steps on a ladder you climb; that is why a scale is an ordered set of notes.