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4.3.3
Musical Scale: Here's What Music Looks Like

How does your mind interpret what you hear when you play a major scale? Call this scale what you like ...

Three different representations of the C major musical scale.

... it’s the same scale. Figure 19 (below) gives you a better visual representation than Figure 18 (above). Here’s what it looks like to your brain—how your mind actually hears this musical scale:

Diagram of internal dynamics at play within a major musical scale.

FIGURE 19: Musical Scale—What It Looks Like

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