Learn Minor Piano Scales

Note: Please pay close attention to this lesson as you will need to know minor scales when forming minor chords.

Minor Piano Scales:

2 Steps to Playing a Minor Scale:

1. Find the relative major key of the minor scale that you want to play. (Either refer to the chart above or find what scale has the keynote of the minor scale you want to play as it’s 6th tone … since the minor scale is also the Aeolian mode of a scale.)

2. Play the relative major key starting and ending on the sixth degree. (The 6th degree of the relative major key should be the keynote of the minor scale that you want to play. You can also verify the relative major key by counting 3 half steps to the right. If it takes more or less than 3 half steps to get to the relative major key, then the relative major key you have chosen is not correct.)

Natural Minor Scales

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