Question

Which answer describes a major scale?

-Two whole steps and five half steps
-Four whole steps and four half steps
-Three whole steps and five half steps
-Five whole steps and two half steps

Answer 1

The answer is Five whole steps and 2 half steps. (I play piano this is how I was taught)

Answer 2

Answer: five whole steps and two half steps

Explanation: the major scale is one of the diatonic scales (Relating to or characteristic of a musical scale which contains seven pitches and a pattern of five whole tones and two semitone), a group of notes or musical pitches in a particular pattern, used to make melodies. The pattern for a major scale is:

tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone. Where a tone is whole and a semitone half.