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Major Scale Worksheet (Printable, with Answers)
Free printable major scale worksheet: write any major scale on the staff or name it from the notes. Three levels, bass or treble clef, answer key included.
Major Scale Worksheet (Printable, with Answers)
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About the Major Scale Worksheet
The Major Scale Worksheet is a free, printable tool that creates major scale practice sheets. You either write a named major scale on the staff or name the key of a scale shown to you. It has three difficulty levels, bass or treble clef, and an answer key.
It runs in your web browser with no sign-up, and nothing you enter is uploaded. Choose your settings, work through the questions, and check each scale on screen or print the sheet. Teachers, students and anyone learning music theory can use it to practise the seven-note pattern of every major key.
How to use the Major Scale Worksheet
- Pick a Difficulty: easy, medium or hard.
- Set the Questions menu to 10 or 20.
- Choose the Exercise: Write the scale on the staff, Identify the scale, or Mixed. Write is the default.
- Choose the Clef: Treble clef or Bass clef. Treble is the default.
- Choose Keys: sharp and flat keys, sharp keys only, or flat keys only.
- Under Writing exercises, pick Use the key signature or Use accidentals (no key signature).
- Optionally, set One key only to drill a single scale, such as G major.
- Work through the sheet, then press Show answers to check each scale.
- Press Print when you are ready, or press New worksheet for a fresh set.
Printed sheets include Name, Date and Score lines. The worksheet prints on A4 and US Letter paper. Use One key only when you want repeated practice on one scale, and leave it on Any key for mixed review.
Start with one key. Set “One key only” to a single key, such as G major, and practise that scale until the pattern feels automatic. Then widen the choice with the Keys and Difficulty menus.
To write a scale, start on the tonic and apply W-W-H-W-W-W-H, with half steps between degrees 3-4 and 7-8. Use the next letter name for each degree, then add the sharp or flat that gives the right step. When you finish, count the accidentals.
What is the pattern of a major scale?#
A major scale is eight notes, one for each letter name, ending on the octave. Its step pattern is whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half, written W-W-H-W-W-W-H. The half steps fall between degrees 3 and 4, and between degrees 7 and 8.
To write a major scale, start on the tonic (the note named in the key). Apply the step pattern, use the next letter name for each degree, and add the accidental that produces the correct step.
Why does every note in a scale have a different letter name?#
A scale uses each of the seven letters once, then returns to the first. That is why D major contains F♯ and C♯, never G♭ or D♭. It is also why A♭ major is written A♭ B♭ C D♭ E♭ F G, with the letter B used for the second note rather than C♭.
How do I know how many sharps or flats a major key has?#
Count around the circle of fifths. Each step clockwise from C adds one sharp: G has one, D has two, and so on up to C♯ with seven. Each step counter-clockwise adds one flat: F has one, B♭ has two, and so on up to C♭ with seven.
What is the difference between a key signature and accidentals?#
A key signature is written once at the start of the staff and applies to every note of that letter name. Accidentals are written beside individual notes. A scale sounds the same either way, but the notation looks different. The worksheet lets you practise both.
How do I check a major scale I have written?#
Count the sharps or flats in your scale. They must match the key signature exactly. Then check the letters: each of the seven letter names should appear once, with none repeated or skipped.
At medium level, some identify questions show a scale with one wrong note: find it and say what the correct note should be.