Originally Posted by: dvenetianI like his too because it shows the 12 semitones to the Octave, Referred to as the Chromatic Scale. The only thing is that it doesn't provide an answer to the 64 Million $ Question...... Octave means 8 (why is it 0 to 12) ????
Because there are 8 WHOLE Tones.
Re-read this...
An Octave is a tone 8 diatonic degrees apart from a tone of the same name.
This means there are 8 TONES in a Major Scale:
C D E F G A B C
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8