Minor Scale Melody

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Add two notes to the minor pentatonic to complete the minor scale — a familiar, sweet and solemn sound, nearly as common as the major scale. As a mode of the major scale, it uses the same triads and pentatonics in a different order.

Why

  • The minor scale and its modes color everything darker; learn to hear each shade

  • Notice how emphasizing a different note within the same set changes the feeling entirely

  • Learn to rotate the structure of the major scale to play its other modes

The path

  1. Untimed
  2. Timed
  3. Range Shifting
  4. Nesting Layers
  5. Anchored
  6. Full Range
  7. Pentatonics Full Range
  8. Triads Full Range

On the instrument

Minor Scale