User:Skierpage/Music intervals/Major minor

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The only difference in the first five notes between major and minor scales is the third note, or degree, is flattened in the minor. This moves the half step, from the third to the fourth notes, to the second to third notes.


{
	<<
	\relative c'
		{
			c d e f
			g1
			g4 f e d
			c1
			c4 d ees f
			g1
			g4 f ees d
			c1
		}
		\addlyrics {
			do re mi fa
			so
			so fa la ti
			do
			do re me fa
			so
			so fa le ti
			do
		}
	>>
}









Not much, but in the right hands...


{
	<<
	\relative c'
	{
		\tempo  "Presto" 2 = 114
			c d e f
			g1
			g4 f e d
			c1
			c4 d ees f
			g1
			g4 f ees d
			c1
			
			c4 ees8 ees8~ ees4 ees8
			c'8~ c2 bes4. bes8
			g1 d1
			d8 c8~ c2
			
		}
		\addlyrics {
			When the win -- ter 
			came
			you were not a -- round
			now the sum -- mer's | "gone__ and"
			love can -- not be
			found
			
			Where were you when
			I need -- ed you
			last win -- ter
		}
	>>
}

Stevie Wonder, part two of "Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You)", composed and performed when he was only 21!