Scale Degrees

Ok, now that we've covered the major scale pattern, we're going to go a little more in depth. Scale degrees play an important part in understanding scales, intervals, and chords. There are 8 tones in a major scale: C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C
                     1, 2, 3, 4,  5,  6,  7,  8
These scale degrees are important in many ways. First of all, when we look at the major scale pattern (ws, ws, hs, ws, ws, ws, hs) we will notice that the half steps fall on degrees 3 & 4 and 7& 8, in all major scales.
Secondly, when forming intervals we use scale degrees: 2nd,3rd, 4th, etc. We will go into forming intervals in the next post.

Hope this clarifies scales for those of you that want simplified music theory. :)