Originally Posted by: axemaster911I have done alot of investigation into accidentals, and the most basic definition I have come across is " a wrong note ". Now thats certainly not the way I look at them because no matter what scale I am playing their is always cool sounds to be explored by sampling notes outside the scale.[/QUOTE]
What ever you've been reading, it's just flat out wrong. That is simply not true, and that's what I've been trying to stress all this time.
Accidental = # (sharp) or b(flat)
That's absolutely it. Nothing more, nothing less. Anyone that tells you otherwise is not telling you the truth. My source will be this. http://www.musictheory.net/lessons/html/id20_en.html
Read what this lesson tells you. That is what an accidental is. Accidentals have no effect what-so-ever on what determines a diatonic scale. They're a completely different thing. Of all of the books I've read on music theory, I've never read anything that has disagreed with this.
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But threw my studys I have always found the diatonic scale patterns to be the blueprint , or basis for most scale variations. And I just cant see an accidental, or wrong note in a basic diatonic scale.
So if you could show me a diatonic scale with an accidental in it, and explain why the note that your pointing out as an accidental, that would leave much thankful.
Again, there is no diatonic scale pattern. Diatonic isn't a scale. It's just a word with a definition.http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=diatonic There are no compositions in D Diatonic because there is no diatonic scale pattern.
The scale you're thinking of is C Major. The Major scale is the scale that is used for the blueprint of everything and C Major has no accidentals and because C Major has 2 half steps and 5 whole steps in its interval structure, it is also a type of diatonic scale, but it is not the diatonic scale because there is no interval structure called diatonic. That is it.
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