Minor Scale!
As important as Major!


Minor Scale! - If you carefully listen to the songs that are based on the minor scale, you will realize that the songs tend to have a sad feeling to it. Songs based on the Major scale, on the other hand, sound happy. It does not mean that the minor scale is less important; the only thing is that the songs based on this scale tend to have a tinge of sadness and it gives you a totally different feeling.

Consists of Eight Notes
The Minor scale is similar to the major scale in the sense that minor scales also have eight notes with the first and the last notes having the same name. But that’s where the difference ends. The combination of whole steps and half steps is different in this scale from the major scale.

The minor scale can contain both white keys as well as black keys and just like the major scales, they can be based on 12 different keys.

Three different Minor Scales
When people refer to minor scale, most of the time they mean the natural minor scale. There are also two other variations of minor scale, known as Harmonic minor scale and Melodic minor scale but here we will discuss only the Natural minor scale.

Example of a Natural Minor Scale
The easiest Minor scale to remember is the A minor scale. Reason being it is exactly similar to the C Major scale.

A Minor scale - Only white notes! No sharps or flats.
Notes - A B C D E F G A

The fingering for this scale based on 2 octaves will be as follows.
RH 123 1234 123 12345
LH 54321 321 4321 321

With this, we come to the end of this session on the Natural minor scale. You can go through this site for information on many other scales as well as for information on how to play the piano better.



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