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Thank you We sneak in Sorry And here's your smoked

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you sure brought to you by exhausted bands Teachers look

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on the bright side on lee Forty more years of

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screechy ode to joy until retirement right Here's our question

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Which of the following scales contains the notes shone above

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and here the potential answer All right first things first

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let's figure out what notes we're looking at here We

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know we're in trouble class so that means we have

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f g a and b flat If we take a

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look at our options we know we can eliminate some

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of these scales pretty quickly How can we do that

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Two words magic chicken wait what No different to words

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And there we go He signatures that's Better way know

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that d major has two sharps in its key signature

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f sharp and c sharp We also know b minor

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is the relative minor of d major So it has

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the same two sharps And if we take a look

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back at the scale we can see it has an

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f natural not in f sharp So naturally that means

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we can eliminate both bnd now in a whole tone

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scale each tone is related to the other by a

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whole step and a quick glance at our scale shows

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us that's Definitely not what we're dealing with here there's

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only a half step between a and b flat which

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means we can eliminate option c which leaves us with

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the drum roll please Yeah f major f g a

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and b flat are the first four notes in any

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f major scale for the more f major has just

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one flattened its key signature b flat another quick glance

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at our scale and yet be flat is the last

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note Looks like we can say is the correct answer

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without running into any trouble Sorry we'll cut out the 00:01:40.929 --> [endTime] puns tone it down if you will

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