The major scale, also known as the Ionian mode, is the most common scale in Western music.
It’s a diatonic scale containing seven notes in the pattern of whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half steps.
Example: C D E F G A B C. The last note, C (8th note), is one octave higher than the root of the scale.
A commonly used diatonic scale containing 7 notes
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