More free lessons and resources on how to play guitar go to. 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. Minor scales and keys conjure feelings of sorrow or tension. Now lets combine the notes of the minor pentatonic and major pentatonic scale and create some soloing ideas. Minor scales minor scales keys are used by composers when they wish to express a different mood than those characterized my major scales in music. All the scales here are in one octave, but you can of course practice each piano scale in as many octaves and in any tempo you like. In this short lesson you will quickly learn how to get the minor scale from the major scale. Learn to use math to scale a drawing so you can create maps, grids, and even buildings that are perfectly proportional. Worksheet 11 a flat major scale worksheet 12 a harmonic minor scale worksheet e harmonic minor scale worksheet 14 d harmonic minor scale worksheet 15 test your knowledge 1 quiz worksheet 16 test your knowledge 2 quiz key signatures and scales by beatrice wilder. It is sometimes referred to as the aeolian mode, e. Lets look at how to build this scale and how it is related to the major scale and the major pentatonic scale. The blues scale minor pentatonic and the major pentatonic scales on the guitar duration. The natural minor scale is the sixth mode of the major scale. Understanding the pentatonic scalemajor and minorfree pdf.