A Minor Scale for the Piano

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Summary: Learn how to play the A minor Scale on a piano in this free online video music lesson on how to play the piano for beginners.

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Omri Goldshtrom Omri Goldshtrom has been playing the piano for over 10 years. He currently teaches lessons to students of all ages in the Greater Austin Area. For more info... read more

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A Minor Scale for the Piano

Hi my name is Omri and today we are going to learn the A Minor scale. The A Minor scale begins on A, any A and goes up all the white keys up to the next A. That is one Octave of the A Minor scale. We can play it up; we can play it down. Now there is another scale that has no sharps and flats which is the C Major scale. Now the reason that we have more than one scale that has this key is because one is Major and one is Minor. What makes a scale sound Major is not just the combination of notes but the combination of intervals. For example, if I played these same white keys but instead of starting on C and going to C which would be the C Major scale, if I started on F for example, it has a totally different sound quality than when I start on C. If I play the same combination of intervals a whole step, a whole step, a half step, a whole step, whole step, whole step, and a half step but I start on a different note that will still be a major scale. For example, if I start on E and pay the same combination of intervals I will get an E Major scale. So it has a sound quality that sounds Major. The C Major and A Minor scales are two scales where when we play that combination of intervals we don’t have to play any of the sharps or flats. Now it is not just a coincidence that C and A are a third apart from each other. If we take any two keys for example, G Major if we count down one, two, three steps we will get to another scale, a Minor scale that is the same exact key signature or number of sharps and flats. The interval we call a relative minor, C is the relative Major of A Minor and A Minor is the relative Minor of C Major.