Would you consider yourself a music enjoyer? Do you find yourself hearing a chord or a melody that sounds appealing to your brain, but you're not sure why?
Speaking, reading and understanding the language of music is a skill that can really alter the way you listen to it. When you learn what notes work with each other and why, you notice more creative tools that your favourite artists use, and you can appreciate them on a whole new level.
In every scale, there are 7 different notes. If we label them from 1 to 7, you can refer to notes in a scale by their scale degree in order to make the discussion more universal to any scale. For example, in C major, scale degree 1 is C, scale degree 2 is D, scale degree 3 is E, and so on.