Piano pentatonic blues scales overview with pictures. Welcome to this lesson on strategies to learn scales the easy way. You can make a major and a minor scale starting with any note on the piano. Adding a blue note to the regular pentatonic scale result in the pentatonic blues scale. This is because this scale is really the blues scale with one note missing. Minor scales are no less important or smaller in size than major scales. Learning how to play scales will improve your piano playing. In other words, a minor chord consists of a root, a minor third, and a perfect fifth. All keys are shown, including the commonly used 12 keys of the circle of fifths diagram, and other theoretical ie. Piano scales and minor scales piano tips and free piano. This is a resource with free piano lessons and printable scale charts for beginners. The natural minor scale is often referred to simply as the minor scale. The sound of the harmonic scale is somewhat characterized by the music of the middle east.
Single octave natural minor scales with fingerings for piano. Natural minor scales sheet music for piano download free. For the melodic minor scale, you raise the sixth and seventh notes of the natural minor scale by a half step as you go up the scale and then return to the natural minor as you go down the scale. Learning the major and minor scales for piano are one of the fundamental skills in a musicians education.
In this video lesson well be going over how to learn and drill in scales in the fastest way possible. Natural minor scales clarinet lexcerpts sheet music. The pentatonic scale, major and minor free piano lessons. A scale is a stepwise arrangement of notespitches contained within an octave. Each scale is provided as a separate pdf download with finger numbers above each note. The other two are the natural minor and the melodic minor.
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. Understanding minor scales in this brief tutorial we are going to try to demystify minor scales. Scales include major, harmonic minor, and melodic minor varieties. Minor scales are built on the 6th scale degree of a major scale. The harmonic minor differs from the natural minor by the sharpened seventh note, and this minor scale is consequently not played in the same. Eventually, you should be able to play each scale with both. Eventually, you should be able to play each scale with both hands, ascending and descending, four octaves. Heres a quick look at how to build minor chords on every note of the scale. There are both pentatonic major and minor the minor is slightly more often used.
As done previously, complete the six scales below turning them into the harmonic version. Alfreds basic piano library the complete book of scales chords arpeggios cadences 1. Relative minor, natural, melodic, harmonic scale tutorial. Pdf alfreds basic piano library the complete book of. The circle of fifths is a very useful diagram which shows us what keys are most closely related to each other. The most common scales when playing the piano, are major and minor scales. Natural, harmonic and melodic forms about minor scales. Like major scales, minor scales have eight notes, with the top and bottom tonic notes. When we are dealing strictly with major scales we really only have one scale to draw our notes and melodies from. Minor scales cheat sheet harmonic minor raise the 7th scale degree melodic minor raise the 6th and 7th scale degree ascending, revert to natural minor descending. Make it your goal to be able to play minor scales in every key in music. Start with the natural minor, because it is the easiest to learn and remember, and its also the most common minor scale used in popular music.
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. 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. Heres the a minor scale harmonic on the treble clef. Learn piano tips proper fingering for piano scales minor keys c g d a e below are the group i major scales. Each minor scale has a different use and application in jazz piano and so learning how to construct and apply each one is a vital skill.
The idea behind doing this was basically that i couldnt find any chord diagrams that werent either being charged for or. The scales here are not arranged by order of difficulty, but rather in a chronological order. Chapter 6 major scales and key signatures 119 the circle of 5ths the circle of 5 ths is simply the twelve different notes on the piano keyboard seven white keys and. To play a harmonic minor scale, you simply raise the seventh note of the natural minor scale by a halfstep as you go up and down the scale. The sixth note of each major scale is the root note of the relative minor scale for example, the notes of c major scale are. The numbering system is based on your thumb being 1 and your pinky being 5.
Here ive organised them in groups of fingering rather than keys. Bellingham music teachers association scale and arpeggio fingering chart for piano major and minor scales and arpeggios two octaves chromatic scale. However, we have 3 different types of minor scales when working in minor. But in jazz, we play the true melodic minor scale both up and down, and call it the jazz melodic minor scale. A minor pentatonic contains scale degrees 1, b3, 4, 5, and b7. After i give you the fundamentals, ill give you a continue reading scales made easy psh. The a minor scale is called the relative minor scale of the c major scale. Lets now take a look at the c harmonic minor scale.
You can learn how to form other melodic and harmonic minor scales at our main piano music scales section. How to explain harmonic minor scales to piano students. D minor pentatonic has the same notes as f major pentatonic and so. The difference between these two scales is the pattern of. Download our piano scale finger charts for the major scale, harmonic minor scale and more. Cs relative minor pentatonic scale, a minor pentatonic, begins on the 6 th scale degree of the major pentatonic scale shown above. The two scales you use most frequently when you play the piano and the most famous scales in western music are the major and the minor scales. And the only way to do that is to have the patterns of each minor scales unique whole and halfstep signature memorized perfectly. Note that a minor pentatonic has identical notes with c major pentatonic but in different order. Each scale sounds similarly minorlike, but they each also. The minor scale uses the wh wwh ww pattern of intervals. List of all natural minor scales piano music theory.
Remember that the harmonic version is a natural minor scale with a raised 7th degree. A scale is a series of notes pitches arranged from lowest to highest. There are 3 groups and its easier to learn a particular finger pattern and apply it to the group rather than learn each scale separately. The major blues scale is some less common than the minor blues scale, and therefore we start with minor and you will find the major by scrolling down. Usually using the musiclock backing tracks or some kind of improvised duet. 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. Natural minor scales sheet music for piano download free in. From each key on the piano you can start either a major or a minor scale. Every scale determines a key,that is an harmonic combunation of tones based on that scale.
We call scales relative if they share the same key signature. The minor scale is the scale which sounds negative it is used by composers to depict sad, melancholic or even angrydramatic moods. Print and download in pdf or midi natural minor scales clarinette gammes mineures naturelles 1 octave. This pack includes ten pages of scales with the following features. Printable piano music scales in all major and harmonic minor keys. Natural, harmonic, and melodic forms margaret denton, piano minor scales. Major scales all 12 keys the 12 major scales provide the foundation for further scales study. Its also true to say that the c major scale is the relative major of a minor. The first mode of the melodic minor scale isthe melodic minor scale. A scale degree is designated by an arabic numeral with a cap which indicate the position of the note within the scale.
You can get more diagrams in the tuning of your choice by using my interactive web app here. In piano scales, two main scales are the major and minor scales. We provide downloads for common scales including major, the three minor scales natural, harmonic, and melodic, the blues scale, and others. This pdf contains the diagrams for all the major and minor pentatonic scales in all keys for guitar in standard tuning. This is the least used of the minor scales, so if its a little confusing, dont worry too much.
I know the beginning of the video is a little dry, but its important. Print and download in pdf or midi piano major scales. Jan 17, 2017 the best way to practice all major scales is by using the circle of fifths. Free printable pdf downloads with notes and fingerings for scales in every key. 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. E minor scale on piano piano scale lessons right and. The lesson could not be displayed because javascript is disabled. This page shows piano and treble clef diagrams of all minor scales, starting from note c.
A minor scale a b c d e f g a ww e minor scale e f. Because of this relationship relative minor scales share the same key signature as their major counterparts and vice versa. Minor scales are built on the 6th scale degree of a major scale to quickly find a major keys relative minor, count down 3 halfsteps from the tonic note of the major scale remember to start with the tonic then. Octaves were chosen for readability, these can be done anywhere on the keyboard. You need to understand something right away to be a piano or keyboard player. The best way to practice all major scales is by using the circle of fifths.
For example, the c minor chord includes the notes c, e. Print and learn to play piano scales in major and minor as well as in other interesting modes, in the lessons below. Scales, arpeggios and cadences, two octaves margaret denton, piano major scales, arpeggios, and cadences, 2 octaves these scales are arranged pianistically by groups according to fingering patterns to facilitate memorization harmonic form of the minor scale is shown. Chords for piano compiled by simon creedy please distribute freely the contents of this pdf file can be distributed freely and are available to everyone. For example, in an a minor blues scale, the added note would be d sharp. Each scale has a different use and application in jazz piano. These scales are for obvious reasons perfect when playing blues on the piano. The harmonic minor scale is one of three minor scales. Learn how to play the a minor melodic scale in this piano lesson with thomas lemmon. Print and download in pdf or midi natural minor scales. These make great handouts for piano teachers to use with students. In classical music, you play the true melodic minor scale ascending and the natural minor scale descending.
Melodic minor scales jyttes piano sheet collection. The natural minor scale is the naturally occurring diatonic scale with no altered scale degrees or added accidentals. Barbara murphy university of tennessee school of music major and minor scales half and whole steps. They provide a pool of notes for you to choose from when improvising and set the foundations for further modal scale study. Major and minor scales contain seven notes or scale degrees. The pentatonic scale is frequently used in lots of popular music styles. Remember, if youre looking at a major scale, lower scale degrees 3, 6, and 7 to get the minor scale. You can printout the pdf below which is all major scale for practise at the piano. The 3 types of minor scales in music musicnotes now.
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