• TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    First, you don’t have to, it’s a useful convention.
    Since the middle ages, the west has used a seven note scale with five whole steps and two half steps. This gives one scale, c major, with seven natural (neither flat nor sharp) notes.

    As an aside, I believe there are six note scales.