I’ve taken five years of private piano lessons, five years of private violin lessons, and a semester of private guitar, but none of my teachers ever taught me the pattern that every major scale follows and the pattern that every minor scale follows of whole steps and half steps. Did they just expect me to notice without pointing it out? I was always taught to just memorize the notes. But I was messing with my keyboard today and I saw the pattern. Am I an idiot for just now seeing this? Or is this just not a method used in teaching music? And everyone just memorizes scales instead of the patterns?
Submitted July 23, 2026 at 05:40PM by Lost-Caregiver2374 https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/1v4q1is/major_vs_minor_scale_patterns/?utm_source=ifttt