Guitar: The Circle of Fifths for Guitarists: Learn and Apply Music Theory for Guitarists by Joseph Alexander

Author:Joseph Alexander [Alexander, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: www.fundamental-changes.com
Published: 2016-10-17T16:00:00+00:00

You will know that the sharps are F#, C# and G#, and the key is A Major because A is a semitone above G#.

Relative Minor Keys

Every Major key has a closely related Minor key/scale that contains all the same notes as the Major scale, but starts in a different place in the scale. Finding the related Minor scale is very similar to the way we found a new Major key on the 5th of the previous one, but this time we do not alter any notes with sharps.

The Relative Minor is simply scale is built on the sixth note of any Major scale.

Sometimes you will see the name ‘The Natural Minor scale’. This is identical to the Relative Minor scale, and sometimes you will even see it called ‘The Aeolian mode’.

To form the relative/Natural Minor scale, simply go the sixth note of the Major scale and begin a new scale from there.

For example, in C Major, the sixth note is the note A:

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