How to Play a Natural Minor Scale for Electric Guitar Solos

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Hi! My name is John Armstrong with expertvillage.com, I’m a professional guitar instructor and today I’ll be going over some of the basic rudiments of playing the lead guitar or soloing. Okay next we’ll discuss the natural minor scale, the natural minor scale is created by taking the major scale and flatting the third, the sixth and the seventh, for example here would be an A-major scale…and by flatting my third, sixth and seventh I create the A-natural minor scale…What’s important to remember when using the natural minor scales is the concept of related keys or related scales, this concept says that for each major scale there’s a minor scale that contains the same seven notes, how do you determine what that scale is, for example if I was in the key of A-major, not counting A as one of my three frets go back three frets, half sharp. In A-major scale…and an F-sharp natural minor scale…are going to contain the same exact seven notes, so whenever soloing in a major or minor key you can use the equivalent relatively major or minor, for example when soloing the key of A-major I can obviously use my A-major scale but I can also use my F-sharp natural minor scale, the opposite then holds true, for example if I was in the key of E-minor my song was…I can obviously use my B-minor scales but I can also use the equivalent relative major which is my D-major, so B-minor…and its relative minor B-minor.

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