Modes (Part 5)

In Part 3 of this series, we figured out all the scales where we choose 7 notes from the 12 notes in the usual chromatic scale, with the property that the biggest step between notes is a whole tone.

We saw these scales come in three sets of 7:

I discussed all but the last seven in Part 4. So let’s look at these now!

Modes of the Neapolitan major scale

The modes of the Neapolitan major scale are all the 7-note scales drawn from the usual chromatic scale where three consecutive notes d...