Then, continue playing harmonic minor notes and melodic minor notes with your right hand. This pattern contrasts nicely with our A and C-E motif. Now let’s make things a little more interesting by adding a second motif in our left hand: F and C-F. There is no right or wrong way to experiment and explore! Add a Second Left Hand Motif Try varying your rhythm and the order of the notes. Play the A minor melodic scale over your left hand. In other words, the melodic minor scale goes back to being a natural scale on the way down. …And lower (un- sharp) the 6th and 7th notes coming back down: A-G-F-E-D-C-B-A In this scale, we raise the 6th and 7th notes going up: A-B-C-D-E-F#-G#-A Next, let’s try doing the same thing with the A minor melodic scale. It really adds tension to the scale, and sounds beautiful when you resolve the G# back to A. The G# is what makes the A minor harmonic scale so special. (Want to know why there are different types of minor scales? Check out this lesson for details!)Įxplore the top end of the scale (like E-G#-A), especially the G#. In the A minor harmonic scale, we raise the 7th note, turning G into G#: A-B-C-D-E-F-G#-A Play around!Īs a refresher, these are the notes of the default A minor natural scale: A-B-C-D-E-F-G-A Once you’re comfortable playing the left hand motif, play the A minor harmonic scale over it. You can then let go of the lowest A when you play the E-A. If your hands are small, don’t worry! Here’s a secret: Press down the sustain pedal and gently float between the keys. This pattern is based on the A minor root chord (A-C-E). It’s the relative minor of C major, which means its natural scale doesn’t have any sharps or flats.īut as you’ll see, we’re going to look beyond the natural scale today to explore the harmonic and melodic minor scales.įirst, let’s establish some rhythm by playing a repeating left-hand motif. To keep things simple, we’ll stick to the key of A minor.
#Minor scale pattern how to#
This lesson will familiarize you with how to play minor scales and get you creating some truly beautiful sounds. Today, we’ll learn how to build a dreamy piece using harmonic and melodic minor scales.
This lesson was requested by one of our very own Pianote members! Thank you, Archita, for getting us excited about playing these beautiful, hypnotic sounds! But it can be hard to know HOW to play minor scales and make them sound good! Learn both scales up and down the neck.Scales give us the tools we need to create beautiful sounds on the piano. These two guitar minor scales should help you get started in learning to improvise, read music or play songs in a minor key. Memorize these patterns and try to find a way to apply them to your playing, whether that's by improvising, or figuring out notes by ear. You can also move that note to the fourth string, but the way we're gonna do it today is we're gonna play on the third string, do a little bit of shift out of the position. I like to just take my first finger and put it back up the position and keep going like nothing ever happened. Note that this scale has a position shift to play the B note on the third string. We'll also talk about the natural minor scale, which is a 7-note scale and also related to the major scale. This scale is related to the major pentatonic. This is probably the most commonly-used guitar scale, at least in this part of the Universe that we are in. The first one is the pentatonic minor scale. We're going to talk about two of the most basic minor-scale patterns.
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