CodeFN42 has released a potentially useful new Windows plugin known as Cales. This simple VST tool maps a specified scale to your MIDI keyboard, meaning that bum notes should become things of the past ...

There’s no substitute for getting a handle on music theory and learning your scales, but if you need a quick online reference source, ToneGym’s free Music Scales Tool could come in very handy indeed.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Scales are the building blocks of most music. That’s why I – and maybe you – have had to spend ...

In a corner of the Citizens' Theatre rehearsal room, seven young women are gathered round a piano, at which is sat musical director Hilary Brooks, who leads the ensemble through their scales. In their ...

There are many different scales and some are linked to particular styles of music or geographical regions. Each scale can conjure up different feelings and moods. Here are some of the most well known ...

The chromatic scale -- the musical scale that follows the notes of the piano and of which the Western seven-tone do-re-mi scale is a subset -- may not be based on number ratios, as many physicists and ...

Throughout history, humans of many cultures have found approximately the same small set of sound frequencies musically appealing, as in the 12-note chromatic scale played on the black and white keys ...

Now 173 years old, The Musical Times is the world's oldest continuously publishing classical music journal. Based in the UK, it appears four times a year, usually in March, June, September and ...

A chara, – I really enjoyed Rosita Boland's admission that music does nothing for her ("I have a confession to make – music does nothing for me", People, April 28th). There must be a scale of how ...