Scale Lesson

• Music Theory
• Piano Chords
• Piano Chords in the Key of C
• Piano Chords in the Key of D
• Piano Chords in the Key of E
• Piano Chords in the Key of F
• Piano Chords in the Key of G
• Piano Chords in the Key of A
• Piano Chords in the Key of B
• Guitar Chords
• Guitar Chords in the Key of C
• Guitar Chords in the Key of D
• Guitar Chords in the Key of E
• Guitar Chords in the Key of F
• Guitar Chords in the Key of G
• Guitar Chords in the Key of A
• Guitar Chords in the Key of B
• Scale Lessons
• Chinese scale (Major Pentatonic scale)
• Oriental (Arabic) scale
• Indian scale
• Spanish scale
• Gypsy scale
• Natural minor scale (Aeorian Mode)
• Harmonic minor scale
• Melodic minor scale
• Major scale (Ionian Mode)
• Dorian scale
• Phrygian scale
• Lydian scale
• Mixolydian scale
• Locrian scale

Natural Minor Scale / Aeorian Scale

This lecture is the Natural Minor Scale which is also known as the Aeorian scale of the Gregorian mode(Church mode) .

Natural Minor Scale

	C		D		E	F		G		A		B
C Natural Minor	♪		♪	♪		♪		♪	♪		♪

Natural Minor Scale

	A		B	C		D		E	F		G
A Natural Minor	♪		♪	♪		♪		♪	♪		♪

Each pitch of Natural minor scale.

Natural minor scale's each interval is "whole-half-whole-whole-half-whole-whole".

Beacause of lack of leading-tone (last pitch is whole interval), Triad in the natural minor scale is not have dominant function.

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Triads and Seventh Chords

Natural minor scale has the following triads and 7th chords.

Triad in the A Natural Minor Scale

Triad	Am	Bm(b5)	C	Dm	Em	F	G
Degree Names	Im	IIm(b5)	bIII	IVm	Vm	bVI	bVII

Seventh Chord in the Natural Minor Scale

7th Chord	Am7	Bm7(b5)	CM7	Dm7	Em7	FM7	G7
Degree Names	Im7	IIm7(b5)	bIIIM7	IVm7	Vm7	bVIM7	bVII7

Let's listen to my song "Ghosts of Labyrinth" using the Natural minor scale.

How did you like it? Lack of leading-tone affects sound, We never feel the end of the song.

Roughly speaking, there are only two scales in the music, one is Major scale, and the other is Minor scale. Say, Minor scale is a basis of all scales. So the sound is absolutely clear.