Did you notice that the flat and natural scales are mirror images of each other?

[rpavich]

I was just looking at the major scale diagrams and realized something interesting!
The flat version and the natural version of a particular scale are mirror images of each other.

A flat is the same pattern as A but upside down…and so on.

[rpavich]

I guess not all of them, just quite a few. The C scale doesn’t, the F scale doesn’t.

[David Haynes]

Not sure what you’re saying here. What’s a ‘flat version’?

[rpavich]

If you look at the scale diagrams and the “up two, down two, up 1 down 2” sorts of patterns, you’ll notice that some are exactly the same in pattern but flipped upside down.

Here is B and B flat flipped over.

[David Haynes]

I don’t know that there’s any significance to that but that sort of spatial recognition will be helpful to you as you work through the Method.

To that point, look at the spatial relationship between white and black keys (on your piano) and tell me what you see.

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