How to Read an F Minor Scale

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Part of the video series: The F Melodic Minor Violin Scale

F Minor Violin Scale: 1st Degree

F Minor Violin Scale: 2nd Degree

F Minor Violin Scale: 2nd Octave

F Minor Violin Scale: 3rd Degree

F Minor Violin Scale: 4th Degree

F Minor Violin Scale: 5th Degree

F Minor Violin Scale: 6th Degree

F Minor Violin Scale: 7th Degree

F Minor Violin Scale: 8th Degree

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Summary: To be a great violinist you need more than just scales. Here is a free video clip on how to read an F minor violin scale on staff paper.

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Jason Salmon Jason Salmon has played the violin for more than a decade. He has taught for the Ladsonian Foundation in New York, which gives inner-city youths affordable vi... read more

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How to Read an F Minor Scale

Now we learned how to play and construct an F minor melodic scale on the violin. But know we're going to learn that on the staff paper, let's take a look. Here's an F natural it has a one under it and it has a one under it because it's scale degree number one. Two is under a G natural and if you see we have this V shape between two and three this V shape symbolizes a half step, 4 B flat so you put a little flat, 5 C, 6 D natural. In a natural melodic minor scale it would be D natural and it would be B flat but now see that is the key signature D flat. But now it's a D natural because in a melodic minor scale we raised a six, the seventh we have this V shape connecting it because between seven and eight is a half step always in a melodic minor scale.