Minor Scales - Everything You Need To Know In 7 minutes

Typo at 0:44 - A minor, not A major. Sorry!
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Minor scales are directly related to major scales, with a few extra rules. Like a lot of things, they're easy when you know how.
You're going to need to know major scales and key signatures to understand minor scales. Check out these links if you need brush up on those concepts:
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Key Signatures - • Key Signatures - Every...
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[@BradHarrison]

I might be able to help with that! I can help you with solfege and coach you through some of the associated practice. Send me a message through my website if you’d like to set something up! www.bradharrison.ca/lessons

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This explanation proves my theory that nothing is hard to understand. Good teachers are hard to find! I have seen lots of videos on YT, none worked. Five minutes here and I understood Minor Scales. Thank you Brad, God bless you!

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Can you make a video for how to know what the name of the note is and what it means and how it looks?

[@BradHarrison]

I did a video on note naming! Note Naming: Everything You Need to Know in 9 minutes kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6m3mmade6eJfLc

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[@BradHarrison]

Amazing! So glad to hear it all came together for you. Good luck on the project!

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this was so helpful, as I was struggling to understand the workings of the minor scale and the video had all the information I needed summarised into notes, thanks a lot!!

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Great video! I'm studying music therapy in university (I'm in my first year) and my teacher in music theory explained minor scales the exact same way! Awesome editing and extremely accurate thought patterns and information!

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[@BradHarrison]

Thanks for the fantastic comment! Happy new year!

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[@BradHarrison]

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I'm relearning the trumpet after more than 5 decades. It's been very helpful to discover instruction videos that explain various music theory principles. However I can honestly say this this video is the very best I've seen on the structure of minor scales. Also appreciated the info on "modes." Thanks for the professional illustrations and razor focused, simple explanations.

[@BradHarrison]

Glad you enjoyed! I’ve also got a whole video on modes if you like. Welcome back to the trumpet!

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@@BradHarrison Thanks for the reply. It's good to be back playing. I feel I'm somewhere around "middle" intermediate level at this time. Finished Getchell's first book. Working through the second now. #78 gave me a lot of trouble for a while... think I'm finally getting it (lots of key changes!). I also like the Nathan Ost Lyrical etudes, though I'm not doing too well on some of them; particularly range-wise. Anyway, I will definitely be pulling up your modes video as well as the Circle of Fifths and several others. And to all other brass players out there, please do NOT put the horn down; not even for a day or two. Brass playing is a very physical thing. Even 20-30 mins a day of practice is better than zero. Just run your major scales in different patterns, and focus on lip flexibility. But once you walk away for a while, life has a nasty way of gobbling up virtually all of your time. Obviously I can never get those fifty years back. But hopefully I've got another twenty plus years ahead of me.

[@BradHarrison]

Trumpet is so physical! Consistency is key. I didn’t practice as much over pandemic and less while not teaching over the summer and first rehearsals back were a bit of a challenge. Feeling much stronger after a couple weeks of good practice. It’s even more important for beginners building strength and familiarity to keep the schedule up. Keep it up and all the best!

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Excellent video! After struggling for well over an hour (and much more), this enabled me to figure out why I was correctly playing C# in a song which didn't seem to fit with the major or minor scales when relating to the other notes in the song. I was essentially trying to work out which key I was playing it in (self-taught from a YT video). This taught me that the harmonic minor scale exists... which raises the C of the Dm scale to C#. Thank you! 😃👍🎹

[@BradHarrison]

Excellent! The raised 7th is a powerful note.

[@johnny_pilot]

@@BradHarrison Thanks Brad! So, am I right in understanding that this is why I also play the note C in the same song... because that raised 7th note can also fall back to a natural within a song? I play a keyboard and all my music knowledge is self-taught.

[@BradHarrison]

Yeah! Lots of composers will switch between the raised and lowered 7th in the same piece depending on context and preference. The melodic minor scale works like this.

[@johnny_pilot]

@@BradHarrison Thank you Brad. I am learning a lot, but my investigation into this song that I play in trying to work out the key is still not complete. I'm sorry if I am bothering you too much now. I wonder if you'd be kind enough to help me as I want to understand. The song I am playing (that I learned from YT) is clearly transposed up 4 semitones (or tuned differently), probably for the same reason as I would... it'd be too difficult for me! So, I thought I was playing the notes as D harmonic minor (transposed up from B flat minor???), but this player also plays the Cm chord, or it looks like it. I think he also plays a two-note chord (the E flat note). Only if you can spare your time, I wonder if you could end my misery? This is the Russian 80's song I'm playing... What key is he playing here, please? TY in advance if you can spare your time. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aarQfGqempKmopY

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The two-note chord was F# and D, sorry.

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Thank you so much-- I love your music theory videos! To play a minor chord, you lower the third note of the chord. How does that relate to a minor scale? Thanks.

[@BradHarrison]

Thanks!! A minor chord is 1, 3, 5 of the minor scale. Maybe check this out: Triads: Everything You Need to Know in 9 Minutes kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y3zde3mwl5J7h8k

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Hi Brad. I’ve just found your channel and I’m so impressed. I play alto sax and I’m self taught, which also means my theory isn’t great. Your teaching method is so clear and interesting. But I need help with understanding the difference between the major and natural minor scales. I realise they have the same notes but start on different notes, so why would they sound different( happy and sad)? I say this because once you’ve played the scale once through starting on the different note and then play a piece of music, surely the music will just sound like the major scale? I look forward to your comments.

[@BradHarrison]

Thanks for your comment! So glad you’re enjoying the channel! Different scales sound different because of the intervals between the notes. This is certainly true with major and natural minor. The minor third vs the major third is one of the biggest differences. Consider the different between C major and C natural minor.... If you played a melody based on each scale, I think you’d agree they sound pretty different. Try Twinke Twinkle in major(C C G G A A G, F F E E D D C) and natural minor (C C G G Ab Ab G, F F Eb Eb D D C). Let me know what you think!

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@@BradHarrison Thanks for such a rapid response Brad, I'll try out what you've explained later today. Really appreciate your time.

[@markflanagan8538]

Hi Brad I did what you said and it became apparent my question wasn’t correct. I meant to ask you about the major and minor scale that was relative (Major G/ minor E). Regards Mark.

[@BradHarrison]

@@markflanagan8538 ​@@markflanagan8538 You could play the same tune in G major(G G D D E E D, C C B B A A G) and then the same shape of notes in relative minor of E(E E B B C C B, A A G G F# F# E). They major and minor versions sound different because the intervals between the notes are different.

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Thanks so much for your videos. Is there a quick way, without looking at the piano keyboard, to know what the relative minor key is? I can do it easily while I’m looking at the keyboard, but if I’m trying to just remember it in my head, I get confused whether something should be sharp or flat in the minor designation. Thanks for your help.

[@BradHarrison]

You could memorize the keyboard! Or just go to the sixth note of the major scale. Or go down there semitones and two note names. But yeah, there’s going to be some memorization involved.

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Excellent videos! I really appreciate your explanation! Do you have a video explaining what chords go with the Harmonic or Melodic scales? Like for the Major scale we know that chords go like this : Major, minor, minor, Major, Major, minor, diminished, Major. What about for the minor scales? Thanks in advance. Keep up the great work.

[@BradHarrison]

Check out this one! Triads: Everything You Need to Know in 9 Minutes kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y3zde3mwl5J7h8k

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It’s on the to-do list! Got half a script done.

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Thanks for this video I haven’t finished a Music theory test I have extra time, but I know that when we were converting minor skills to melodic, harmonic, and natural eye truly messed up and I just came here to confirm something and I think I can fix it before I turn my test in

[@BradHarrison]

Hope you figured yourself out! You may find this one useful as well:Parallel Scales: Turn a Major Scale Into Any Other Scale kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqHGc3aPl7usrsk

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