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brudgersyesterday at 7:08 PM1 replyview on HN

From C the first six stacked fifths give C Lydian, not C major. (You get an F#, the 5th of B as the seventh pitch, not F the 5th of Bb).

You don’t get the perfect fourth until you go all the way around the circle of fifths.

You cannot stack perfect fifths and get a major scale.


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dhosekyesterday at 8:25 PM

I was being sloppy and should have said diatonic scale.

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