Harmonizing the Minor Scale on Guitar

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MICHAEL PLUNKETT: Hello. This is Michael Plunkett again from Expert Village. Now we're going to be looking at how we go about harmonizing or building chords from the minor scale. We take the same basic concept that we did before where we build in triads. I'm not going to go through each one right now and how we would go about doing that, it would take quite some time, but we'll describe what each one of the scale degrees, chords would look like if we make that note into an entire chord. So, since we are in a minor scale, if we start from the first scale degree, that would give us a minor chord. And again, I'm going to write in Roman numerals. This is how it would be referred to if you ever to look in a theory book, they would use this too, so to be consistent with that. I'm also--I'm going to jump again to the 4 and the 5 because those are actually always consistent with the 1, so in this case if the 1 is going to be a minor chord, so are my 4 and my 5. So, I'd have an F minor, a lower case 4 to signify a minor and a lower case 5 to signify minor for those. So, C minor, F minor, G minor. Now, in this case, my 2 is actually going to be a diminished or as before my 7 was. And my 3, in this case, is my E flat chord. My 6th, which in this case, is my A flat chord to 6 there and my 7 are all going to be major when I'm harmonizing a minor scale. So again, playing in the key of C minor. If I build the chord off of D, it's going to be a D diminished, E flat major, F minor, G minor, A flat major, B flat major, and then we get back to our C minor again. That's harmonizing the minor scale.

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