Major and Minor Scales (Keyboard Tut #14)

Now we get to Major and Minor scales. This is where things start to get interesting IMO :)

Here's the sheet music for the examples:
http://morganstudios.com/Major&MinorExamples.bmp

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• Keyboard
• Piano
• Lesson
• Guide
• scale
• Minor
• Major
• Modes
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[yiayiaDiva]

i don't understand modes so much and what exactly A minor is to C major... Do every "major"s have an accompanying "minor" to them? And what exactly puts a major and a minor together/why do we associate the two with each other? (for example C major and A minor as opposed to C major and .... F# minor or something, if that makes sense)

[M0rganstudios]

Yeah all majors have a relative minor and vice versa. They share the same notes, the difference is where you start.

C Major = C D E F G A B C

A Minor = A B C D E F G A

F# minor on the other hand is a relative of A major, so:

F# minor = F# G# A B C# D E F#

A Major = A B C# D E F# G# A

same notes, different starting place. That's all modes are.

[nikar0]

Hi

Thanks alot for these tutorials they are really helping :)

Hm about relative minors, is there only 1 relative minor to each major scale and vice versa? I mean if i play C Major and then play it starting on E (E F G A B C D E) do i have E minor and it turns into a relative minor?

Thanks alot for this stuff,

Also if you could check my HD video on my channel of a preview of a song from my band it would be cool (Violin Madness).

Cheers!

[M0rganstudios]

Well it kinda depends on which meaning of the word "minor" you mean. As far as the normal minor scale, yes there's only one relative minor and for C Major it's based off of A. Buuuuttt, there's 4 minor modes: Dorian, Phrygian, Aeolian (same as regular minor scale), and Locrian.

So playing E to E in the key of C is actually E Phrygian which is a minor scale (not the standard one though). Phrygian is actually a really cool mode. Sounds kinda spanish, or dark. Metallica uses it a lot.

[M0rganstudios]

If you guys want music for the examples I played, just let me know. I played them in a way that would make them easy to write out if anyone is interested.

[M0rganstudios]

btw, someone requested the sheet music for the examples, so I wrote them up and posted them in the description.

[yiayiaDiva]

Ohhh oh oh okay thank you! These tutorials are great. I have very little music reading/writing knowledge but this is helping tremendously

[slinkyone88]

hmmm, i watched all of your tutorial playlist and it all helped, but this one threw me and now i feel like im back at the start lol. But cheers from Aus anyway. Some of this stuff i had already self taught using books and internet, but you still helped. now im off to bed

[cipanbest]

thank u for the tutorial,,,,please post more

[tricofilms]

Minor ftw! This really helped, thanks m8!