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Also question is, how many notes are there?

In music there are specific pitches that make up standard notes. Most musicians use a standard called the chromatic scale. In the chromatic scale there are 7 main musical notes called A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. They each represent a different frequency or pitch.

Likewise, how many notes are there in most music? seven notes

People also ask, why does music have 12 notes?

By dividing each octave into 12 intervals, you maximize the number of pleasingly sounding pairs of notes. That is because the number 12 is divisible by more small numbers than any other number less than 60. It is divisible by 1,2,3,4,and 6. So in modern western music they use 12 intervals.

Do all scales have 7 notes?

But in theory, any combination of notes CAN be a scale. We all know that Major and minor scales have 7 notes, but there's no reason why scales need only have 7 notes. Some scale have eight notes (diminished), some have six (wholetone), some have five (pentatonic).