Usually, these Minor Scales have three patterns that compose the emotions in melodies. Harmonic, Natural, and Melodic are the three kinds of designs that are in music theory under Minor Scales. Primarily musicians choose the natural patterns to compose and, this pattern will popularly use the world widely. Minor Scales mostly use to convey the reflection of anger. It can create every moment of anger. In Minor Scale, the third pattern scale is minor over cordial notes, where it is over the root in the minor seventh chord.
The Natural Minor Scale will provide the sense of the Aeolian mode of modal music. Minor Scales consists of seven chords where the 7th chord contains 5 types of rhythms. Minor Scales use to create the emotions like suspense, fear, anger. The Minor Scales carry the half steps between the 2nd and 3rd scales, 5th and 6th scales, 7th and 8th scales.
These are just a few examples of how choosing major and minor chords can create a mood, both expected and unexpected. Skip to main content. By blank. You can apply this formula to figure out the notes in any major or minor scale.
A scale is made up of 7 notes: the Root, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th. Play this run of notes and it sounds darker and heavier. One little switch on that second note has the power to make you feel hope or dread.
But almost always used to describe 7-note scale structures, usually the major scale or the minor scale, but sometimes other modes as well. This may be less true for rock, pop, dance and electronic music but is still quite true for most other styles. The dead giveaway is in the chords in minor scale harmonies. The key of A minor can have E maj , or E 7 , whereas those chords would not appear as often in the key of C major. So now you have the ability to take any starting note and make a major or minor scale.
In the long run intermediate and advanced musicians will know all 12 major and 12 minor scales on their instrument. Notice that the same sequence of whole and half notes are used, but with a different starting point. The formula above just describes a scale known as the natural minor scale. The minor scale that starts on the same note as a major scale is known as its parallel minor scale ; so the parallel minor scale of C major is C minor.
There are three types of minor scales left, the natural, harmonic, and melodic minor scales. Terminology can get confusing at this point, so understand that:. There is another way to discover the natural minor scale. Start by numbering the notes in a major scale 1 — 7, where 1 corresponds to the first note of the scale, 2 to the second etc; these numbers are known as the scale degree. One way to arrive at the natural minor scale is to lower the 3rd, 6th, and 7th scale degrees.
While this scale does create a minor, or melancholy and sad tonality, the flattened seventh scale degree causes some issues. In a major scale the 7th scale degree B is a half step away from the 1st scale degree C. Half steps are more tense than whole steps. So when the 7th B of a major scale moves to the 1st C it creates a strong sense of resolution.
The solution is to create a minor scale with a natural 7th scale degree. This is the Harmonic Minor Scale shown below.
These comments are based on this Michael News excellent youtube video on minor scales. At seconds he discusses the need for more scales than just the natural minor scale; he provides auditory examples that are helpful in improving understanding.
Typically you can tell a piece primarily uses a major scale if it makes you feel happy, and primarily uses a minor scale if it makes you feel sad. I find the following pieces more difficult to place; do you think they are predominantly major or minor?
It pulls on the heart, with a deep, somber sound. Yet it is written in a major key although it ends on a minor chord.
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