4/1/2015
Extended Scale
The International Music Federation's bi-annual meeting concluded today in Vienna.
It was announced that agreement was finally reached to add an additional note to the the musical scale in order to accommodate the continued evolution of modern musical composition. This change would not become effective until 2020 to allow musical instrument manufacturers and music publishers time to comply with the new specifications.
The added note would be named "H" as an extension of the current alphabetical progression.
Phonetic note-names in the major scale would remain unchanged except for the addition of "ha".
--> do, re, mi, fa, so, ha, la, ti, and do again (to complete the octave)
The new note is often sounded as a triplet.
In the chromatic scale, the addition of a new H# (Ab) would also be needed.
Beginning in 2020 piano keyboards will have both H's and H'#’s included thus changing the familiar pattern of black keys from 2-3-2-3... to 2-4-2-4.
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It would be helpful if, in future updates, iReal pro could reflect these changes when they are implemented.
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