eli5 how scales are turned into songs

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I’m trying to understand how music is made and a lot of sources say that they make them out of scales but I still don’t understand what part of the scales change and what they change into or anything like that. Thanks.

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The notes of a scale are like the colors in a painter’s palette: you arrange them in particular ways to create music, just as you arrange the colors to create a painting. The scale is the background pitch collection, and the specific order, combinations, and rhythms of the notes are the foreground.

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