The Circle of Fifths for Piano: Learn and Apply Music Theory for Piano & Keyboard (Learn to Play Piano) by Joseph Alexander

Author:Joseph Alexander [Alexander, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: www.fundamental-changes.com
Published: 2018-07-19T00:00:00+00:00

While the major scale is bright and happy-sounding, the natural minor is quite sombre and dark. If you can’t hear this right away, try playing the A Natural Minor scale over a sustained A Minor chord as in the audio example.

As natural minor scales contain exactly the same notes as their “parent” major scales, the two keys are very closely related, while sounding very different.

The keys of C Major and A Minor sound completely different, even though they contain the same notes. This is because the chords built on each scale have a kind of gravity that pulls back to the tonic chord (A or C).

Once again, we are moving into realms of theory that are outside the scope of this book. For now, you simply need to understand that we can use the relative minor key of any major key to create a closely related, albeit sad-sounding piece of music.

Bob Dylan’s All Along the Watchtower was written using the natural minor scale, for instance.

As mentioned, you can find the relative minor key of any major key simply by counting up six notes of the scale.

For example, the relative minor of G Major is the key of E Minor:

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