How To Memorize EVERY Minor Scale On Piano

[@PianoFromScratch]

▶ Get your Scales, Chords & theory Guides here www.pianofs.com/downloads Hope this one helps!! Learning minor scales this way by getting familiar with the intervals you're using is MUCH more effective for learning music in the long run.. that's why I teach it that way.

[@PianoGuidance]

The way you broke down the different types of minor scales was super helpful. Still wrapping my head around it, but feeling more confident already!

[@Longstride]

Finally, a video that made sense to me! Love the way you explained this. Thanks

[@PianoFromScratch]

Nice, glad it clicked

[@cocoxu7945]

Thank you, again. Great tutorials for beginners.

[@DJBSTORM222]

Thanks for the help

[@ARDx812.]

I just watched your video from 3 years ago about how to remember all the Chords in major and minor and that video was amazing. Thanks for continuing to make content. It really is a game changer

[@PianoFromScratch]

Awesome, good to hear the videos have been helpful!

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

I know this and practice it every day, but I have much respect for your teaching style that I'm watching it as a review. I decided to do 10 minutes a day working on scales, mixing them up. I just started today and it was quite humbling. Especially playing the melodic minor scale in contrary motion. I won;t get frustrated, since it will get better with time.

[@PianoFromScratch]

Great stuff, Lawrence. Yes it’s good to always keep on top of the fundamentals! Thanks for watching

[@alanhumbard8298]

You’re the best at explaining piano learning techniques.

[@PianoFromScratch]

Appreciate it, glad it works for you 👍

[@Jose-sb1zq]

Greeeeat video! 🎉

[@Roshiyoshiiii657]

Bro has increased my piano skills in the past 3 days to an entirely different level you have my thanks !

[@PianoFromScratch]

Awesome to hear, keep going!

[@k.rantony8900]

Excellent teaching 🎉 greetings from Kottayam Vazhoor Kerala India 🎉

[@PianoFromScratch]

Hi! Still find it cool that people from all over the world watch

[@salamibnu298]

Very good explanation..

[@rajinderkumar3464]

Excellent in🛕🛕

[@jeremymusic6544]

Would you recommend to learn the major scales with the blocks method and then the minor scales by just lowering the respective intervals? Because you said in the other vids that it's difficult to learn them all without viewing them as shapes aka boxes?

[@PianoFromScratch]

Picturing the major scale in blocks is a good way to get started and practice seeing larger shapes… but at some point these need to be by heart anyway. The major scale then becomes a handy reference point to find other things. Using major to find minor instead of just trying to memorise minor scales is really useful because it teaches us how the minor scale is built, what it’s made of and how it compares to major. When you say ‘boxes’ I think you’re referring to what I said about the major scale blocks - that was as opposed to using half steps and whole steps and was just a starting point for the majors really. 👍

[@RedEyeEngineering]

🔥

[@thuyakyaw2230]

Can you teach me how to play the guitar and how to play the piano?

[@kierenmoore3236]

Isn’t Phrygian a minor scale as well, the same as Dorian? (yes, they’re modes … but modes are just scales, that were/can be derived from other scales?)

[@PianoFromScratch]

I know what you mean, it's like the natural minor scale with a b2 and that's a useful way to remember it. I don't really think of it like as a minor really though because that flat 2 makes the whole tonality quite different, much darker to my ears. But also because Dorian is much more broadly useful/more widely used in my experience, that's why I only included that one here, (that and sticking to the variations of 6,7 thing) Gotta draw the line somewhere 👍

[@kierenmoore3236]

@@PianoFromScratch Yes, Phrygian messes up your conclusion … so just pretend it doesn’t exist, lol … 😊 Pretty sure if it has 1, b3 and 5, it’s a minor scale … ?

[@PianoFromScratch]

@@kierenmoore3236 Jeez... there's no pretending anything doesn't exist to suit my 'conclusion' haha, I'm just grouping together a selection of useful scales to teach beginners. Most people watching will likely have no need for phrygian at the moment so including it in this lesson wouldn't be helpful for them.

[@kierenmoore3236]

@@PianoFromScratch … but Phrygian IS a minor scale … N’est-ce pas?

[@bongtaolunglee2386]

I want to meet you soon

[@PianoFromScratch]

I don't get out much 🤣

[@m007mm]

5:10 isn't that the phrygien mode?

[@PianoFromScratch]

Phyrgian is like a natural minor scale with a flat 2nd

[@m007mm]

@@PianoFromScratch pardon me, it's the phrygian dominant scale/mode...

[@PianoFromScratch]

No, phrygian dominant would have a major 3rd instead of a minor 3rd

[@PianoFromScratch]

Oh do you mean when I played the top part of the harmonic minor scale, G Ab B C? Because yes those are the same as the 1st 4 notes of G phrygian dominant which is a mode of the harmonic minor scale

[@MansNardo]

I didnt even realize I am this early

[@PianoFromScratch]

Thanks for watching, I hope you caught the worm