Minor Scales: Easy Music Theory

Why There Are 3 Variants of the Minor Scale (and what we can do with them)video: • Why 3 Minor Scales Exi...
Relative Minor Scales/Keys video: • Relative Minor Keys - ...
00:18 - Natural Minor Scale
1:19 - Relative Minor and Relative Major Scales
3:08 - Harmonic Minor Scale
4:52 - Melodic Minor Scale
8:05 - Jazz Melodic Minor Scale
9:56 - Don't Be Overwhelmed!
12:06 - How to Figure Out the Notes in the Natural Minor Scale
12:26 - Finding Natural Minor Scale Using Parallel Major Scale
15:13 - D Harmonic Minor Scale
16:13 - Flats and Sharps in the same scale?!
16:38 - D Melodic Minor Scale
20:10 - E Natural Minor Scale
21:47 - E Melodic Minor Scale
22:43 - E Harmonic Minor Scale
25:29 - Order of Whole Steps and Half Steps in a Natural Minor Scale
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Another trick I learned for quickly recalling Major/Minor scales is that in any Major Triad, the 3rd is the natural Minor of the 5th. If you have the circle of 5ths memorized, you can quickly recall how many sharps/flats there are.

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Excellent video ! With this one, I ended up in the twiligth zone with this weird melodic minor scale whose notes differ depending on whether you play it in an ascending or a descending way ! But it does not even hurt that bad ! And I am not even scared,... since I have got a good teacher with me !

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Great lesson! I think I'd go for the perspective of seeing changes from the major scale instead of half & whole steps, but maybe also with the melodic and harmonic minor so the melodic should be just flatten the third of the major scale and so the third and sixth for the harmonic minor I guess. Anyway thank you for your videos because you take your time with examples and explain concepts not giving things for granted!

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