Note that the scale degrees between major and minor do not change. Example 8. A descending D melodic minor scale. You may now notice that the ascending version of melodic minor sounds very conclusive, while the descending version which is the same as natural minor is much less conclusive. Each note of a minor scale is also named with scale-degree names. The following table summarizes the scale-degree names used in minor scales:.
Example 9. Scale-degree names in minor scales. Example 10 shows a B melodic minor scale, ascending and descending, with scale-degree names labeled:. As you can see, the melodic minor scale utilizes the leading tone in its ascending form, and the subtonic in its descending form. The following table is a helpful visual for learning about the three forms of the minor scale. The three forms are put in order of the scale degrees which are lowered as compared to a major scale starting on the same note :.
Example Lowered scale degrees of minor. As you can see, natural minor scales have three lowered scale degrees, harmonic minor scales have two lowered scale degrees, and melodic minor scales have one lowered scale degrees in its ascending version. When comparing major and minor keys, there are two relationships that are important. We use the terms parallel minor and parallel major to describe this relationship.
For example, musicians would say that C major is the parallel major of C minor; likewise, they would say that C minor is the parallel minor of C major. The relative relationship is when a major key shares a key signature with a minor key. For example, C major has no sharps or flats in its key signature, and neither does A minor. We use the terms relative minor and relative major to describe this relationship.
Musicians would say that C major is the relative major or A minor; likewise, they would say that A minor is the relative minor of C major.
The tonic of a relative minor key is always three half-steps below the tonic of its relative major. To form the natural minor scale, we can lower scale degrees 3, 6, and 7. This will change these intervals to a minor 3 rd , minor 6 th , and minor 7 th. That is why this is called a minor scale. The harmonic minor scale uses the same leading tone as the major scale C , but a minor 3 rd and 6 th. The melodic minor scale is more unusual because it is different going up then it is going down.
Notice how the 6 th and 7 th scales degrees change from B and C to Bb and C natural. Going up, melodic minor is almost the same as major, except for the minor 3 rd. Going down it is exactly the same as minor. Hidden category: Pages moved from Wikibooks. Namespaces Resource Discuss. Views Read Edit Edit source View history. Add links. No sharps or flats. F minor. C minor. We will discuss the circle of fifths, as it applies to the minor keys.
Finally, we will discuss the three main types of minor scales: natural, harmonic, and melodic. Just like C major, A minor consists of all the white keys on the piano no sharps or flats. Just like C major for the major key signatures , A minor will be considered our staring point 0 in the order of sharps and flats.
You may recognize this graphic from Ep. This time, we are going to focus on the inner set of keys, starting with "a" lower case letters. The first note in measure 1 is a "G".
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