Minor scales on piano pdf

Harmonic minor scales flute lexcerpts sheet music for. In classical music, you play the true melodic minor scale ascending and the natural minor scale descending. Every scale is explaned with its fingering, with the standar finghers numbering for right and left hand. 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. Major scales keyboard fingerings cmajor c d e f g a b c rh 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5. Translating to sharp, when the note needs to be raised by one semitone. A minor scale a b c d e f g a ww e minor scale e f. Melodic minor modes and altered scale the jazz piano site. Label the scale degrees of the major pentatonic scales. Easy piano sheet music free, the snake charmer, now with an easiertoread arrangement just for young, socially distant students. Each scale has a different use and application in jazz piano. The melodic minor scale differs from the natural minor scale by the sixth and seventh notes, which are raised a semistep. We provide downloads for common scales including major, the three minor scales natural, harmonic, and melodic, the blues scale, and others. The scale in all keys can be downloaded as a pdffile.

Scales include major, harmonic minor, and melodic minor varieties. List of all natural minor scales piano music theory. This scale can sometimes confuse people because it is in a way identical to the major scale. Cs relative minor pentatonic scale, a minor pentatonic, begins on the 6 th scale degree of the major pentatonic scale shown above. For scale help, view the c minor scale highlighted on the piano keyboard, or read the notation.

However, there are in fact 3 minor scales which you will come across and can use. Like major scales, minor scales have eight notes, with the top and bottom tonic notes. These scales are often the first step that we take towards improvising. Every scale determines a key,that is an harmonic combunation of tones based on that scale. Minor scales are no less important or smaller in size than major scales. You need to understand something right away to be a piano or keyboard player. Piano major scales fingerings for people that start to study piano and need a complete guide to scales. A scale is a series of notes pitches arranged from lowest to highest. Download free piano sheet music for major, minor harmonic, and minor melodic scales for all keys. Print and download in pdf or midi piano major scales fingerings. When you go up the scale, you are using the melodic minor scale, but when you go down the scale. 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. When you go up the scale, you are using the melodic minor scale, but when you go down the scale you are using the natural minor scale.

Remember, if youre looking at a major scale, lower scale degrees 3, 6, and 7 to get the minor scale. Alright, time to add scales to your technique training. The minor scale is the scale which sounds negative it is used by composers to depict sad, melancholic or even angrydramatic moods. Minor scales are built on the 6th scale degree of a major scale. Natural, harmonic, and melodic forms margaret denton, piano.

Answers on page 7 a closer look at the major and minor pentatonic scales in the traditional ionian major and aeolian natural minor scales, there exists a tritone augmented 4 th diminished 5 th between the 4 th and 7 th. Free printable pdf downloads with notes and fingerings for scales in every key. You can make a major and a minor scale starting with any note on the piano. Each scale is provided as a separate pdf download with finger numbers above each note. This pdf contains the diagrams for all the major and minor pentatonic scales in all keys for guitar in standard tuning.

But in jazz, we play the true melodic minor scale both up and down, and call it the jazz melodic minor scale. C, g, d, a, e 3rd finger in each hand always plays together. Feel free to send these videos to parents for their kids to watch, use it in group lessons or as part of lab time. These make great handouts for piano teachers to use with students. For example, the c minor chord includes the notes c, e. The 3 types of minor scales in music musicnotes now. The relative minor for a major key falls on the 6th tone of the major scale. This pack includes ten pages of scales with the following features. Remember that the harmonic version is a natural minor scale with a raised 7th degree. Harmonic minor scale and chords, natural and melodic minor. How to play and practice scales and arpeggios for pianists. Print and download in pdf or midi harmonic minor scales flute gammes mineures harmoniques 1 octave.

The three types of minor scales and how to form them. Playing scales on piano has the added benefit of encouraging visual memory. We call scales relative if they share the same key signature. Natural minor scales sheet music for piano download free in. How to explain harmonic minor scales to piano students. Major and minor scales piano major minor piano music, learn. Single octave natural minor scales with fingerings for piano. The most common scales when playing the piano, are major and minor scales. Sep 29, 2018 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. Basically, each of the twelve notes in an octave c, csharp, d, dsharp, e, f, fsharp, g, gsharp, a, asharp, and b can be the beginning of a scale, and the scale is named by the beginning note. Among all the scales and arpeggios, major and minor ones are a good place to start.

Bellingham music teachers association scale and arpeggio fingering chart for piano major and minor scales and arpeggios two octaves chromatic scale. The first mode of the melodic minor scale isthe melodic minor scale. Print and download in pdf or midi natural minor scales. The eight notes in a scale with the first and last notes an. This page shows piano and treble clef diagrams of all minor scales, starting from note c. Each scale sounds similarly minorlike, but they each also.

We call scales relativeif they share the same key signature. The black keys on your piano are pentatonic and theyre in the key of g flat and its relative minor, e flat minor. Natural minor scale a scale that contains halfsteps between 23 and 56 scale degrees the natural form. Select landscape mode to get best results printing it out. There are 12 major and 12 minor piano music scales. The main scales of western music are major and minor scales. 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. Melodic minor scales jyttes piano sheet collection. Starting from any key on the piano you can play a scale. If you need staff paper, you may print the staff paper12 pdf file.

You can easily see them as 7 white keys, and 5 black. Natural, harmonic and melodic forms about minor scales. Minor scales are built on the 6thscale 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 count downdont count. Piano major scales fingerings sheet music for piano. All 12 major scales share the same pattern of whole and half steps between the notes. Contrary to the major scale, there are not one but three minor scales, which all will be presented here. 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.

Play a c major scale on your piano, and follow it with a c minor scale. How to form major pentatonic scales on piano one way of forming the pentatonic is to use the following formula after picking the starting note of the scale. Meter, scales, and key signatures because the white keys running from c to the next c an octave higher form a sequence of notes that have minor 2nds only between ef the 3rd and 4th notes and bc the 7th and 8th notes, musicians call that series of notes a c major scale. Natural minor scales sheet music for piano download free. 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. The idea behind doing this was basically that i couldnt find any chord diagrams that werent either being charged for or. Download our piano scale finger charts for the major scale, harmonic minor scale and more. This scale is also some kind of peculiar since it is sometimes played differently ascending and descending. The pentatonic scale, major and minor free piano lessons.

The difference between these two scales is the pattern of whole and halfsteps that you use to build them. Nov 18, 2008 for piano scales, start with e major chopin used to teach his students this, as the hand naturally forms the correct shape in order to play c major and others properly. All keys are shown, including the commonly used 12 keys of the circle of fifths diagram, and other theoretical ie. You can learn how to form other melodic and harmonic minor scales at our main piano music scales section. Heres a quick look at how to build minor chords on every note of the scale. Then notate its relative minor scale and its scale degrees.

Includes fingering annotation and typeset in latex, exported in pdf format. It also helps to think of modes as major 3 or minor b3, which depends on the third. From each key on the piano you can start either a major or a minor scale. Compare the picture of the circle of 5ths below with the face of a. All minor scales this page shows piano and treble clef diagrams of all minor scales, starting from note c.

Free major and minor scales for piano sheet music dion moult. Feb 20, 2020 a minor scales, arpeggio and tonic triad for grade 1 piano students pdf sheet music. The natural minor scale is often referred to simply as the minor scale. Minor scales sound different from major scales because they are based on a. As done previously, complete the six scales below turning them into the harmonic version. In these videos, i teach students about harmonic minor scales, using staff notation and piano examples. Natural, harmonic, and melodic forms margaret denton, piano minor scales. A minor pentatonic contains scale degrees 1, b3, 4, 5, and b7. The minor pentatonic uses the 1st, minor 3rd, 4th, 5th and minor 7th notes of a major scale or 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 7th of the natural minor scale. All scales are made with a specific pattern of whole steps tones and half steps semitones. The natural minor scale is the naturally occurring diatonic scale with no altered scale degrees or added accidentals.