These make great handouts for piano teachers to use with students. These pitches include five whole steps and two half steps. To build a minor chord, we use the 34 rule which is like an upsidedown of a major chord. Alfreds basic piano library the complete book of scales chords arpeggios cadences 1. Another flavour of minor scale is the harmonic minor scale. Print and download in pdf or midi natural minor scales. Barbara murphy university of tennessee school of music major and minor scales half and whole steps. Minor iivi chord progression finally explained youtube. Below, we look at the minor scale and which triads and fournote chords it can be harmonized into.
We provide downloads for common scales including major, the three minor scales natural, harmonic, and melodic, the blues scale. We will first of all learn how to build major scales and minor scales. This page shows piano and treble clef diagrams of all minor scales, starting from note c. Jazz piano education is through the ears, but books like this can help.
Learn how to play piano chords, notes, scales, proper finger techniques, improvisation, and more. The easiest chords to find and remember are those using just the white notes of a piano. Jazz scale applications the preceding scales are here roughly arranged from most consonant to most dissonant in relation to the following chord types. High resolution sheet music free scales major minor harmonic. Cs relative minor pentatonic scale, a minor pentatonic, begins on the 6 th scale degree of the major pentatonic scale shown above. Learn the note names all minor scales in table form, in all 12 circle of 5ths keys, including single and double accidental theoretical keys. 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. Major scales and natural minor scales consist of the same notes. Harmonised minor scales piano accompaniment mp3 downloads. Learn how to play piano chords, notes, scales, proper. The key difference between major and minor scaes is that notes on a major scale sound bright and cheerful, while notes on a minor scale sound solemn and sad.
Feb, 2017 major and minor scales piano major minor. In this article, were going to focus on the minor scale. 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. The difference is the note on which the scale starts. 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. List of all natural minor scales piano music theory. The minor 251 chord progression is built from the harmonic minor scale. The main scales of western music are major and minor scales. Translating to sharp, when the note needs to be raised by one semitone. Get your free instant download of the pdf version of this guide now. Major and minor scales are variations of the diatonic scale, which is a musical scale built with intervals of 5 whole steps and 2 half steps. If you need to find all the notes within a certain minor key, you dont need to count semitones and tones to. Building piano scales major, minor, etc in all keys.
Violin sheet musicpiano sheet musicpiano lessons music. It will be very useful to know about when later we try and add harmony to pieces using a minor scale. The 3 types of minor scales in music musicnotes now. This is the third post in the piano scale fingerings series. Here ive organised them in groups of fingering rather than keys. They will help you to sing in tune until you feel confident enough to sing your scales on your own. The natural minor scale is often referred to simply as the minor scale.
Each scale has a different use and application in jazz piano. In other words, which chords that can be built from various minor scales. Understanding minor scales in this brief tutorial we are going to try to demystify minor scales. Printable piano music scales in all major and harmonic minor keys. Natural, harmonic and melodic forms about minor scales. Each major key has what is known as a relative minor. This includes many scales and modes such as dorian mode and the phrygian mode in simple terms, a minor scale is a series of notes with a sad, somber character exaggerated. The g major scale and the e natural minor scale share the same group of notes. A minor pentatonic contains scale degrees 1, b3, 4, 5, and b7. See the scale notes and most important chords for each key of your keyboard. When we are dealing strictly with major scales we really only have one scale to draw our notes and melodies from.
My interactive pentatonic scales chart for piano shows fingering diagrams for both pentatonic major and pentatonic minor scales. You can get more diagrams in the tuning of your choice by using my interactive web app here. How to play piano chords playing a c chord chapter 2. Natural minor scales clarinet lexcerpts sheet music. Each minor scale has a di erent use and application in jazz piano and so learning how to construct and apply each one is an important skill. The simplest minor scale is the same as the major scale but with a minor third instead of a major.
All keys are shown, including the commonly used 12 keys of the circle of fifths diagram, and other theoretical ie. Each scale is provided as a separate pdf download with finger numbers above each note. Major and minor scales piano major minor piano music, learn. Contrary to the major scale, there are not one but three minor scales, which all will be presented here. This pdf contains the diagrams for all the major and minor pentatonic scales in all keys for guitar in standard tuning. Though youre probably more familiar with the terms major and minor, a diatonic scale is a scale with seven pitches. Print and download in pdf or midi natural minor scales clarinette gammes mineures naturelles 1 octave. Ive already taught using a brilliant scale teaching aid from natalie wickham. Pdf alfreds basic piano library the complete book of. Single octave natural minor scales with fingerings for piano. Download our piano scale finger charts for the major scale, harmonic minor scale and more. A natural minor d natural minor 36 minor scales unlike the major scale, there are 3 types of minor scale. Whether youre just beginning to learn music theory or whether youve known it for years, its always helpful to have a few handy guides laying around.
There are 3 groups and its easier to learn a particular finger pattern and apply it to the group rather than learn each scale. We call scales relative if they share the same key signature. Natural minor scales sheet music for piano download free. Printable pdf of complete piano chord chart with highresolution diagrams. A minor scale in music theory is any scale that has at least three scale degrees. You can printout the pdf below which is all major scale for practise at the piano. In music theory, the primary scales that musicians learn are diatonic scales. Like major, minor, harmonic minor, ionian, dorian, phrygian, lydian, mixolydian. You can make a major and a minor scale starting with any note on the piano.
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. If youre using your laptop in the studio, just resize one of the diagrams so that the scale youre teaching fills the the screen, then put the laptop on top of the piano. A scale has chords built from it and it is valuable to know how the scales and chord corresponds, not at least when improvising. Essential music theory guides with free printables. Then we learn how to form chromatic, pentatonic and blues scales and more. The difference between these two scales is the pattern of whole and halfsteps that you use to build them. Every scale determines a key,that is an harmonic combunation of tones based on that scale. The pentatonics are fun 5 note scales that are essential to blues and country music. Minor scales are built on the 6th scale degree of a major scale. We shall look at various kinds of scales in this section.
You can learn how to form other melodic and harmonic minor scales at our main piano music scales section. These 3 tones of a minor chord are picked from the minor scale. Minor scales include natural or pure minor scales, harmonic minor scales and melodic minor scales. Major, minor, harmonic and melodic minor scales are part 7 of. The three types of minor scales and how to form them. The lesson could not be displayed because javascript is disabled. Images and this pdf document are provided under a creative commons bysa attribution sharealike licence. Learn all about how minor scales and chords are built, and how they differ from their major counterparts.
Minor scale simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Piano fingerings for dorian minor scales learn jazz standards. 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. The idea behind doing this was basically that i couldnt find any chord diagrams that werent either being charged for or. For example, the notes within the key of f major are the same set of notes. Free printable pdf downloads with notes and fingerings for scales in every key. Major and minor relationships every major key signature shares the same set of notes as its relative minor key signature. Natural, harmonic, and melodic forms margaret denton, piano minor scales.