Major and Minor (Für Elise, Alla Turca)

The difference between major and minor keys. Listen to the strange effect that occurs when you play a tune that's suppossed to be in major in a minor key and vice versa.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Koehoorn
• piano
• major
• minor
• humor

[FunkyBaby01]

Hoi Jan,

Ben het met je eens, het Wilhelmus klinkt beter in mineur! Welke derde toonsoort speel je in het vervolgstukje? Majeur, mineur, en...?

[jankoehoorn]

@FunkyBaby01: je bedoelt het vervolgstukje van het Wilhelmus? Dat is gewoon majeur, maar stijgt steeds een half toontje.

[FXVG]

Hi... This is probably an impractical question considering how much detail may be needed to answer it but I'm really curious. How do you transpose a major song into a minor song and vice versa? Whenever I try it sounds like a completely different song. I'm self taught and I haven't been able to figure it out myself yet.

[jankoehoorn]

Hi FXVG,

in a major scale, there's a major 3th and and a major 6th. In a minor scale, there's a minor 3th and a minor 6th. Just switch these and you're ready. You can play a major 7th in a minor scale so you needn't switch that, but of course you can experiment with it ;-)

Greetings, Jan

[leathurbullet1]

I know that minor is a major with a flat 3rd 6th and 7th, but isn't the 6th the easiest way to make it SOUND minor?

[jankoehoorn]

Hi leathurbullet1,

the minor scale is a little more complicated, because is has three variations: aeolian, harmonic and melodic. In all cases, there's a minor third. When you're only lowering the sixth in a major scale, you're just introducing a minor element in a major scale. This is called a moll-dur sixth. So a lowered sixth is definitely a minor element, but the key-element (pun intended) is the third.

greetings, Jan

[iceburg008]

xD i like it

[mightywarriorx]

Gah, sounds awful.

[TheLuotutin]

@FXVG Well it has too change,since it's a transpose...The tones change considerably...I'm experimenting at the time with an A....The bass has less change than guitar by far...But the guitar holds a sweet spot that bass can never hold.A swinging door...

[TheLuotutin]

@FXVG Well it has too change,since it's a transpose...The tones change considerably...I'm experimenting at the time with an A....The bass has less change than guitar by far...

[jacline28]

sounds interesting :)

[Heliocase]

i enjoy fur elise much more in the major key.

[FXVG]

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. Good video by the way