Lol

viz

Only got 10 and that included some lucky guesses - kept being caught out by the transposed wind instruments.

http://www.classicfm.com/discover/music-quizzes/ultimate-music-theory/

Megii

Well, bloody 9 if you must know...   :x  And I've got my grade 8 music theory too! I only took that 34 years ago, so can't possibly have forgotten anything...  I think question 14 is wrong though - that's not a diminished scale in jazz, as I understand it. I too was caught out by much of the transposing stuff, and a few occasions where I reached the "can't be arsed" point, and just clicked at random.

MatthewShreddery

SPOILER ALERT!

How is question 1 an Augmented 11th?

It's surely an Aug 4th???

EDIT:

meant to say Perfect 11th, not Aug - still, my point stands

Megii

@MatthewShreddery - it's a perfect 11th because there is a natural sign in front of the upper F earlier in the bar, and that stands until the end of the bar, at least according to normal convention.

MatthewShreddery

LMAO - what a bell end I am!

I went straight to the indicated interval and sacked off the rest of the bar.

Cheers

octatonic

Yup, natural sign makes it an 11th. That was a hard test and I'm usually pretty decent at this stuff.

Megii

MatthewShreddery said:

LMAO - what a bell end I am!

I went straight to the indicated interval and sacked off the rest of the bar.

Cheers

No worries, the test setter was using all the devious tricks in the book I think.

MatthewShreddery

I always fall for sneaky shit like that. FML.

viz

Megii said:

Well, bloody 9 if you must know...   :x  And I've got my grade 8 music theory too! I only took that 34 years ago, so can't possibly have forgotten anything...  I think question 14 is wrong though - that's not a diminished scale in jazz, as I understand it. I too was caught out by much of the transposing stuff, and a few occasions where I reached the "can't be arsed" point, and just clicked at random.

yep it's the half-whole (or whole half - can't remember which it was now) diminished scale.

Megii

viz said:

Megii said:

Well, bloody 9 if you must know...   :x  And I've got my grade 8 music theory too! I only took that 34 years ago, so can't possibly have forgotten anything...  I think question 14 is wrong though - that's not a diminished scale in jazz, as I understand it. I too was caught out by much of the transposing stuff, and a few occasions where I reached the "can't be arsed" point, and just clicked at random.

yep it's the half-whole (or whole half - can't remember which it was now) diminished scale.

I think that's what they meant to show, but they forgot to make the next to last note a C sharp. The C natural means there are 2 consecutive semitones. Not that it matters really, I'm not bitter...

viz

Oh yes! Well spotted!