The Natural Minor

Music Theory Scale: Pentatonics & Why So Many Minors?
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Also known as The Aeolian Mode or the Pure Minor, the Natural Minor is as Minor as Minor can be. :)


View the full lesson at The Natural Minor | JustinGuitar

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I think the backing track that’s attached is not playing right.

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@Thomasine I think it’s just a drone tone to practice over Thomasine.

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For the major scales, to be able to solo over them and to know which chords fit well in progressions, we learned all the notes in each of the major scale keys (i think the lesson was major scale theory), but now for the minors there is no word about that whatsoever… should we strive to learn all the notes that go in each minor key so that we can apply that theory for minor progressions and solos?

Also, for the minor scales, why does the course include only one shape of e.g. natural minor scale, whereas for the major scales there was a total of 5 shapes, plus for the pentatonic scale there was 5 shapes. Does the minor scale have different shapes and if yes, are they common in playing?

Thanks,
Matija

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Matija, if you know notes for each major scale, you know all the notes of their respective corresponding natural minor scales. :slightly_smiling_face:

Only the tonal center is different. E.g. A minor is the natural minor scale of C major, E minor is the natural scale of G major, D minor is the natural scale of F major and so on. Does that help a bit?

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That helps a lot, thanks!

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As Nicole mentioned the minor scale has the same notes as its Relative Major scale. This applies to modes as well. So when you get to modes remember the 5 shapes don’t change. The tonal center does.

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