How many combinations are possible with 12 notes?
1728 different sets
With 12 notes, you could get 1728 different sets of three notes. However, this is not the most common Western scale.
Can there be more than 12 musical notes?
There are way more than 12 pitches in music. The currently popular 12-tone, equally divided scale was only fully adopted a few hundred years ago in the West and is still not universal. The underlying reason for choosing the notes we have is that they harmonize with the tonic, or keynote.
Does music only have 12 notes?
Why are there only 12 notes and how did they come about? These 12 notes have typically been used to compose most of the Western music we listen to. We typically use just 12 notes in Western music because of the spaces – or intervals – between the notes. Pieces of music are familiar entirely because of these intervals.
What are the 12 notes in music theory?
From what I remember of music theory, all music (at least Western music) boils down to scales that revolve around the 12 notes (circle of fourths/fifths). I know there are scales in different regions that have different combinations of those notes (many scales have 5 or 7 notes, some have 8, others like the chromatic have all 12, etc.).
Why do some instruments have more than 12 notes per octave?
Some keyboard instrument makers designed and built instruments with more than 12 notes per octave (often 19) but they were intended more for playing several unequally-tuned 12-note scales without having to retune the instrument, rather than as a 19-note scale.
How many notes are there in a musical scale?
The same is true for sound. However, humans find it best to break these notes into different chunks called notes. There are some other ways of grouping music into a different scale. Some of these music scales have as many as 12 notes.
What is a 12 note scale?
It basically means that one uses all 12 notes from western music to solo or improvise. And this takes a long while to get down as you can imagine. Most players only use only 5 to 7 notes when they’re playing. (More on this later when I talk about other kinds of scales.)