The pentatonic scale, major and minor free piano lessons. Listen to and download harmonised minor scale piano mp3s interactive harmonic scale on guitar. If you are just starting out, it is not vitally important to have all these scales memorized in every key. Go to the main piano scales page for major scales, pentatonic scales, scale modes and information about what makes up a scale. There are certain things your mom probably taught you not to do. Print and download in pdf or midi harmonic minor scales flute gammes mineures harmoniques 1 octave. A natural minor d natural minor 36 minor scales unlike the major scale, there are 3 types of minor scale.
The next scale were going to learn is the minor pentatonic scale. We have designed some scales which we hope will help you practice. Then notate its relative minor scale and its scale degrees. Learn the melodic minor scale for piano in every key. Major and minor scales contain seven notes or scale degrees. The natural minor scale has the following scale formula. Natural, harmonic and melodic forms about minor scales. In music theory, the term minor scale refers to three scale patterns the natural minor scale or. Bellingham music teachers association scale and arpeggio fingering chart for piano major and minor scales and arpeggios two octaves chromatic scale. May 31, 2016 notes of the c sharp major scale on a piano keyboard and in ascending order on a staff. Make sure that you follow the fingering as written above each note. Minor scales are built on the 6th scale degree of a major scale. If you would like to learn scales according to the order of difficulty, please refer to the graded syllabus. All minor scales all guitar scales tabs pdf all major scales piano pdf.
All scales are made with a specific pattern of whole steps tones and half steps semitones. Including the natural minor within scale requirements at the early grades can help develop a. Major and natural minor scales for piano with fingerings. This page shows piano and treble clef diagrams of all melodic minor scales, starting from note c. Learning how to play all the scales on the piano will improve your piano playing. She heard him drop a gear, heard the engine scream in protest and watched the narrowbodied, lithe to. The notes you will be playing for this scale are b, c sharp, d, e, f sharp, g, a sharp, and b. And the only way to do that is to have the patterns of each minor scales unique whole and halfstep signature memorized perfectly. When you go up the scale, you are using the melodic minor scale, but when you go down the scale. There is 1 flat in this scale which means that 1 note is lowered as indicated above. All minor scales illustrated with pictures including notes and fingerings. Harmonic minor scale, natural and melodic minor scale menorca map pdf and piano chords chart for. Michael has created each one individually with its own harmonisation so that you can have a context for singing in that key.
Apr 07, 2014 major, natural pure minor, harmonic minor, melodic minor and chromatic scales. How to form major pentatonic scales on piano one way of forming the pentatonic is to use the following formula after picking the starting note of the scale. Major, natural pure minor, harmonic minor, melodic minor and chromatic scales. The melodic minor scale uses the same keys as the parallel major scale, but lowers the 3rd when ascending going up and lowers both the 7th, 6th and third going down. All minor scales harmonic for those who want to learn or revise all the harmonic minor scales, all scale diagrams and videos are complied here. W h w w h w w a half step h is the distance between two adjacent keys on a piano keyboard, and. Heres a little something that ive been working with in the studio this week. June 1998 subcourse overview this subcourse is designed to teach you to identify and write scales and key signatures. The scale in all keys can be downloaded as a pdffile. Each scale sounds similarly minorlike, but they each also. The harmonic minor scale uses the same keys as the parallel major scale same starting note, but major, but lowers the 3rd and the 6th. Keyboard theory and piano technique music lauren schack clark. The minor scales will take longer to learn that the major scales as there are 36 minor scales. This is very easily demonstrated on the piano, where you can physically see the tones and.
Learning these three scales in the key of a is a crucial step towards knowing how minor scales for piano work, but dont stop here. The scales here are not arranged by order of difficulty, but rather in a chronological order. E harmonic minor piano scales piano scales chart 8notes. Piano scales sheet music to help beginners get the right hand shape for scales and. Click here to go to the minor petnatonic scale page.
Since the natural minor key is itself on the circle of 5ths b minor on circle of 5ths, this means that this is a commonly used harmonic minor scale key. Remember, your thumbs are 1 and you number out from there to your pinky fingers. However, there are in fact 3 minor scales which you will come across and can use. The first minor scale that will we discuss is natural minor. The harmonic minor scale is one of three minor scales. In piano scales, two main scales are the major and minor scales. Eventually, you should be able to play each scale with both hands, ascending and descending, four octaves. Return from minor scales to piano lessons info homepage.
Notice that the seventh note is raised in the harmonic minor scale. Contrary to the major scale, there are not one but three minor scales, which all will be presented here. Major and minor scales piano major minor piano music, learn. Natural minor, harmonic minor, and melodic minor scales. The other two are the natural minor and the melodic minor. All 12 major scales share the same pattern of whole and half steps between the notes.
The melodic minor scale differs from the natural minor scale by the sixth and seventh notes, which are raised a semistep. C sharp major key signature the key signature of c sharp major read more enharmonic major scales. All minor scales melodic for grades 1 to 5, students are given a choice of playing either harmonic or melodic minor scales. Learn how to play the b minor harmonic scale on the piano in this piano lesson. This scale is also some kind of peculiar since it is sometimes played differently ascending and descending. As if pianos didnt have enough melody of their own, pianists are also recommended to learn the melodic minor scales on piano in addition to the 15 major and 15 relative natural minor scales theyve already studied learning scales is not too different from learning math. Download free minor scales and piano chords chart key of am. For those who want to learn or revise all the harmonic minor scales, all scale diagrams and videos are complied here.
Hanonle pianiste virtuosepart ii, scales and arpeggios. Natural, harmonic, and melodic forms margaret denton, piano minor scales. We call scales relative if they share the same key signature. Proper fingering of the scales on the piano is very important to development of your skills and advancement as a. But you should understand the difference between the scales and know the formulas for constructing them. C melodic minor scale and fingering chart 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 4 5 5 name c o m i n g d o w n g o i n g u p 1 5 1 5 2 4. The minor scale uses the wh wwh ww pattern of intervals. Notes of the c sharp major scale on a piano keyboard and in ascending order on a staff.
A scale is a stepwise arrangement of notespitches contained within an octave. The harmonic minor differs from the natural minor by the sharpened seventh note, and this minor scale is consequently not played in the same way as the relative major scale. The natural minor scale is often referred to simply as the minor scale. I usually encourage students to choose harmonic minor as it is easier to learn and remember the fingering and notes you do not need to remember 2 different sets of notes and fingering for ascending and descending.
The relative minor for a major key falls on the 6th tone of the major scale. For more advanced students, have them play a 12 or 16bar blues form underneath. Free printable pdf downloads with notes and fingerings for scales in every key. Answers on page 7 a closer look at the major and minor pentatonic scales in the traditional ionian major and aeolian natural minor scales, there exists a tritone augmented 4 th diminished 5 th between the 4 th and 7 th. The minor scale is the scale which sounds negative it is used by composers to depict sad, melancholic or even angrydramatic moods. Once you have watched this free lesson you can download the printable pdf sheet music to use at your piano. Harmonic minor scales flute lexcerpts sheet music for. Going up, the 3rd scale degree is flat, but the rest is like a major scale, and going down it is the same as a natural minor scale. Singing scales can be dull and quite difficult without an accompanist. Make it your goal to be able to play minor scales in every key in music.
All melodic minor scales pdf major minor scales pdf. The solution below shows the b harmonic minor scale notes, intervals and scale degrees on the piano, treble clef and bass clef the lesson steps then explain how to identify the b harmonic minor scale note interval positions, choose the note names and scale degree names for a quick summary to this topic, have a look at harmonic minor scale. Free minor pentatonic blues scale chart saras music studio. Download our free pdf versions of each scale with fingering. Get the notes in your head and move on the the next paragraph to start learning the fingering. This harmonic minor scale is based on the natural minor scale with the same key tonic note b natural minor scale. This scale can sometimes confuse people because it is in a way identical to the major scale. The minor scale uses the wh wwh ww pattern of intervals wholehalfwholewholehalfwholewhole you flat the 3rd note, the 6th note, and 7th note of the major scale and the wh wwh ww minor scale pattern is made. Learn how to play the b minor harmonic scale on piano. The black keys on your piano are pentatonic and theyre in the key of g flat and its relative minor, e flat minor. How to form major pentatonic scales on piano one way of forming the pentatonic is to use the following formula after. A harmonic minor piano scales piano scales chart 8notes. The a minor scale include exactly the same notes as the c major scale which makes them relative keys read.
The most common scales when playing the piano, are major and minor scales. Label the scale degrees of the major pentatonic scales. From each key on the piano you can start either a major or a minor scale. Jan 31, 2014 free minor pentatonic blues scale chart. Download our piano scale finger charts for the major scale, harmonic minor scale and more.
Today im going to talk about the b minor harmonic scale. Piano scales and minor scales piano tips and free piano. The sound of the harmonic scale is somewhat characterized by the music of the middle east. Music theory fundamentals 40 right hand fingerings above, left hand fingerings below. All keys are shown, including the commonly used 12 keys of the circle of fifths diagram, and other theoretical ie. You can learn how to form other melodic and harmonic minor scales at our main piano music scales section. Minor scales cheat sheet harmonic minor raise the 7 th scale degree melodic minor raise the 6 th and 7 th scale degree ascending, revert to. Switch out the regular twooctave majorminor scales for a minor pentatonic blues scale. Scales and key signatures subcourse number mu 0 edition a us army element, school of music 1420 gator boulevard, norfolk, va 235215170 12 credit hours edition date. I have quite a few students who are fans of playing the blues. Dec 31, 2017 learning these three scales in the key of a is a crucial step towards knowing how minor scales for piano work, but dont stop here. Since our weather has been so blue up here, i thought it might be fun to work on our improv skills with minor pentatonic blues scales.