title: ACCIDENTALS HAPPEN! A Compilation of Scales for Oboe Twenty-Six Scales in All Key Signatures: Major & Minor, Modes, Dominant 7th, Pentatonic & Ethnic, ... Whole Tone, Jazz & Blues, Chromatic
author:  William H. Somach 
description: WILLIAM H. SOMACH is a professional violist/violinist/fiddler based in Southwest Florida. He received conservatory-level training on viola & violin at Indiana University, where he also earned a bachelor's degree in Journalism. He works professionally as a freelance classical musician in orchestras & small ensembles and improvises on fiddle in various non-classical styles of music. He also has years of experience working in administration at a summer music camp.
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  Introduction 
  A Note is a representation of a pitch. 
  There are 12 notes in western music. 
  7 notes are called Natural notes and are named after letters from the 
  alphabet they are: 
  A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. 
  The other 5 notes are called Accidentals.  
  On a keyboard Accidentals are the black keys in between the white keys 
  which are Naturals. 
   
   
   
  
   
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  Accidentals are named based on their location on the keyboard. 
   
  Each Accidental has two names and can be identified as follows: 
   
  The note is said to be SHARP (♯) of the note to its left and FLAT (♭) of 
  the note to its right. 
   
  Notice that there are no Accidentals between “B” and “C” or “E” and “F”. 
   
  The two names of the accidentals are known as Enharmonic Equivalents 
  e.g.  A♯ is the enharmonic equivalent of B♭. 
   
   
   
  
   
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  SEMI-TONE  
  A term to identify the relationship between two notes.  A Semi-Tone is a 
  note’s closest neighbor. 
   
   
  TONE  
  A term used to identify the relationship between two notes. A Tone is 
  two