In this lead guitar lesson, we'll be taking a first look at the natural minor scale. Just like the major scale, the natural minor scale is one of the essential scales used on the guitar, and in time it will become an important part of your lead guitar arsenal. The focus of this lesson will be on getting familiar with how the minor scale is made, how it differs from the major scale, and how to apply a simple minor scale shape to a jam track.
We'll be looking at three ways to build the natural minor scale in this guitar lesson. The first way is to start with the major scale. We'll be using a C major scale because there are no sharps or flats that you need to worry about.
To turn this C major scale into a C minor scale, we just have to take three notes and lower them by one half-step. The notes we lower are the 3rd, 6th, and 7th notes in the major scale. Once we've lowered those notes we're left with a C minor scale.
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Just like the major scale, there is a minor scale formula that you can use to build a minor scale from scratch using whole-steps (W) and half-steps (H). The major scale formula follows the pattern W, W, H, W, W, W, H. The minor scale formula follows the pattern W, H, W, W, H, W, W.
Lastly, you can take a modal approach to the minor scale. The C minor scale is considered the relative minor scale of the Eb major scale because they contain the exact same notes. To turn an Eb major scale into a C minor scale you would simply have to start on the 6th note (C) in the Eb major scale.
For the application part of this lesson, we'll be using a simple C minor scale shape that starts on the 6th string and only travels one octave.
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Work on getting this new scale shape under your fingers. Once you feel comfortable with it, pull up the jam track and try playing the scale along to it. Don't worry too much about being creative right away and just focus on listening to how the minor scale sounds when played over the simple C minor 7 groove.
If you want more lessons like this one, be sure to sign up for the Free Guitar Toolbox. It's a completely free collection of over 50 high-quality lesson videos on the most important guitar topics.The minor scale is the second important scale for learning how to play lead guitar. Just like the major scale, it’s a seven note scale.
Before getting started with the minor scale, you’ll want to make sure you have a really good understanding of the major scale. If you haven’t already, go through the previous article on The Major Scale.
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Like the major scale, the minor scale is made up of a series of whole-steps (W) and half-steps (H). This is the order of whole-steps and half-steps that make up the minor scale.
To find the notes of the minor scale, we apply the minor scale formula to the musical alphabet. If we were making a D minor scale, the note we’d start on would be D. If we were making an F# minor scale, we would start on an F#. In this case, we’re going to be making an A minor scale. So the first note will be an A. The rest of the notes are defined by applying the minor scale formula.
Now we’ll number the notes of the A minor scale. Knowing the degrees of your minor scale will help you relate this scale to other scales as well as help you to develop an understanding of the intervals within the scale.
Natural Minor Scale
The relative major scale can be found by going up 3 frets/semi-tones from the minor scale root note. Alternatively, you could locate the 3rd degree of the minor scale. In our A minor scale, this note would be the C. This makes our relative major scale a C major scale.
Here are the most commonly used shapes for the C major scale and the A minor scale. The black dots mark the root notes (the C notes in the C major scale and the A notes in the A minor scale) of each scale.
You should already know that the A minor and C major scales contain the exact same notes. They just start at different points. The A minor scale contains the notes 1A 2B 3C 4D 5E 6F 7G, and the C major scale contains the notes 1C 2D 3E 4F 5G 6A 7B.
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Because of this, we can combine the standard major scale shape and the standard minor scale shape into our larger “extended” scale.
The only difference between the C major and A minor extended scales is the root note locations. In the C major shape, the C notes are our root notes. In the A minor shape, the A notes are our root notes.
It’s really easy to use this scale shape in other keys. All you have to do is move the entire shape so that the root note locations become the root note of our minor key. If you wanted to play this minor scale shape in B minor, you would move the entire shape up two frets so that your A root notes became B root notes.
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