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	A minor pentatonic scales and the guitar fretboard. Learn how to play the pentatonic scale.
		A minor pentatonic scales and the guitar fretboard.
		I will be explaining two types of pentatonic scales, one is the minor pentatonic scale and the other will be the major pentatonic scale.
		This is the root note fret position for the A minor pentatonic scale.
	guitarsecrets.com /a_minor_pentatonic_scale.htm (1389 words)

	Minor Scale -- from Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Music
		The minor intervals and the frequency ratios their correspond to are the second (9:8), minor third (6:5), fourth (4:3), fifth (3:2), minor sixth (8:5), minor seventh (9:5), and octave (2:1).
		The minor scale is constructed from minor triads in an analogous manner to the construction of the major scale by major triads.
		The minor scale was also used by the Greeks, and was called the aeolian mode.
	www.ericweisstein.com /encyclopedias/music/MinorScale.html (309 words)

	Minor scale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A minor scale in musical theory is a diatonic scale whose third scale degree is an interval of a minor third above the tonic.
		Minor modes use the same set of key signatures as major modes; whichever signature corresponds to the step pattern of the natural minor scale is considered the key signature for that minor mode.
		The major diatonic scale is simply a transposition of the natural minor scale, and the harmonic major scale is an inverted form of the harmonic minor scale, so all of these workhorse scales of the diatonic system possess such a circle of thirds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minor_scale (1080 words)

	Tendency Tones and Minor Scales
		Because the resolution of the half-step between scale degree 7 and tonic is so important to tonal music, composers have frequently used a raised scale degree 7 in the minor scale.
		A harmonic minor scale is a natural minor scale with a raised scale degree 7.
		The half-step between scale degrees 6 and 5 cause scale degree 6 to behave as a tendency tone, resolving to scale degree 5.
	www.smu.edu /totw/minor.htm (522 words)

	music theory basics - keys
		This is known as the harmonic minor scale.
		The final form of the minor scale, the melodic minor, is designed to eliminate that ugly augmented second, while preserving the feel of the minor mode.
		In the ascending melodic minor scale the 6th and 7th scale degrees are both raised.
	www.auburn.edu /~schafwr/theorykeysminor.html (616 words)

	The Harmonic Minor Scale Part #1 - Guitar Metal - Heavy Metal Guitar Home
		The melodic feel coupled with a neo-classical sound, this scale was popularized most notably by Yngwie Malmsteen during the 1980's.
		The Harmonic Minor scale is based on the Natural minor scale or Aeolian mode.
		This next example #4 is a chromatic riff that speeds through the A Minor Harmonic scale starting at the high A note on the G string then proceeds an ascending three note per string sequence then stutters the lasts few notes on the high E string before ending with a whole step bend.
	www.guitarmetal.com /content/view/69/70 (455 words)

	UG Community @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com - Minor Scale.
		You should work on minor scales in reference to the major scale using the scale degrees.
		The formula for the minor scale is: 1 2 b3 4 5 b6 b7 1.
		Using this logic - you should be able to work out the paralell minor scale by flatting the 3rd, 6th and 7th note of the major scale.
	www.ultimate-guitar.com /forum/showthread.php?t=390404&goto=nextoldest (830 words)

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		It is helpful to note that the natural minor scale is the same as the 6th musical mode of the major scale (known as the aeolian mode), but the two other minor scales (harmonic and melodic) do not belong to the same group of modes due to their individual alterations.
		Minor modes use the same set of key signatures as major modes; whichever signature corresponds to the step pattern of the natural minor scale is considered the key signature for that minor mode.
		The major diatonic scale is simply a transposition of the natural minor scale, and the harmonic major scale is an inverted form of the harmonic minor scale, so all of these workhorse scales of the diatonic system possess such a circle of thirds.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Minor_scale (1184 words)

	The Harmonic Minor Scale
		The harmonic minor scale has just one tonally effective mode and that is the scale conventionally known as the harmonic minor scale.
		The reason that the harmonic minor scale is used as the harmonic foundation of the minor mode is that, despite its melodic deficiencies, its tonality is very powerful and unambiguous, whereas the tonality of the aeolian mode is weak and easily displaced, and the tonality of the melodic minor is even weaker and more ambiguous.
		In a sense the harmonic minor scale is the "default" scale to which the melodic variations must return in order for the tonality to be maintained.
	www.andymilne.dial.pipex.com /Harmonicmi.shtml (328 words)

	Glass ~ Music Minor Scale Lesson
		Natural Minor - In this scale half steps (H) are between the 2nd and 3rd and the 5th and 6th scale degrees.
		Harmonic Minor - In this scale half steps (H) are between the 2nd and 3rd.
		This scale can be found most easily on the piano by playing all of the "white keys" from A to A. If you did not do so earlier, use the interactive keyboard so that you can hear what the Minor Scale sounds like.
	www.glassmusicworks.com /ScaleLessons/MinScale.html (477 words)

	F minor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		F minor is a minor scale based on F, consisting of the pitches F, G, A-flat, B-flat, C, D-flat, E and F.
		To create F minor's harmonic scale the seventh note is raised one semitone to E natural.
		F minor is a key often associated with passion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/F_minor (200 words)

	minor blues scale / 12 keys
		My thinking is that it evolved from the minor pentatonic scale, which would have been a common scale / group of pitches / color to both the African American and Native American peoples during the early European colonization of the southeast region of the North American Continent.
		So, with this in mind, starting at the natural top of the minor cycle of fourths, moving by the root motion of the perfect fourth, we build this melodic colossus on each of the 12 pitches of the chromatic scale.
		Minor dominant of the key of E major / minor, a very common blues key.
	www.jacmuse.com /blues/bluesscale/newpage27b.htm (629 words)

	Hungarian Minor Scale
		Scales containing one or more augmented intervals tend to sound more exotic, and are more difficult to harmonize and apply than scales build solely on one- and two-semitone divisions.
		The Hungarian Minor resembles the Harmonic Minor, with the exception of an augmented fourth, which introduces yet another augmented interval (between the minor third and the augmented fourth).
		By comparing the notes of our Hungarian Minor scale, starting at the second degree (D), with the normal step/half-step pattern of a diatonic major scale beginning at the same note, we discover that the resulting chord is a dominant seventh with a diminished fifth.
	www.exotic-scales.com /CH_16.aspx (1258 words)

	A major / F# minor Pentatonic Scale (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The minor pentatonic scale can be considered a derivative of a minor scale based on the sixth degree (aeolian or natural minor for you modal guys and gals) of a major key with the 2nd and 6th omitted.
		The scale based on the sixth degree in the key of A major reads as follows: f#, g#, a, b, c#, d, e.
		Most "heavy" rock tunes are often minor in nature (due to their bluesy origins), and in that case, require the application of minor pentatonic scales.
	www.daddydoodle.com /afspenta.htm (549 words)

	Minor Pentatonic Scale @ FREE Basic Guitar.com
		The Minor Pentatonic Scale is one of the first scales that guitar students learn.
		Pentatonic scales are known primarily for the "bluesy" sound they suggest, but have long been used by blues, rock, and jazz musicians.
		A minor pentatonic scale is "related" to its major pentatonic scale because it has the same patterns (or notes) but the tonic note changes.
	www.freebasicguitar.com /minorpenta.asp (277 words)

	Dolmetsch Online - Music Theory Online - Minor Scales
		In the scale of A minor the dominant is E. The seventh chord on E is E-G-B-D which is an Em7 chord.
		The falling melodic minor scale in the key of A minor is the falling natural minor scale.
		Because the key signatures for A flat major and f minor are identical, f minor is said to be the relative minor to A flat major and A flat major is said to be the relative major to f minor.
	www.dolmetsch.com /musictheory10.htm (2271 words)

	Pentatonic Minor Scale Lesson For Guitar And Bass
		This scale is often called the "blues scale" but we will stay away from that name because many people seem to have different ideas of what is or isn't the blues scale.
		The pentatonic minor scale is a five (5) note scale (penta meaning five like in pentagon, and tonic meaning tone).
		E pentatonic minor will be the pentatonic minor scale played in the key of E, which means E will be our root note.
	www.theorylessons.com /pentminor.html (390 words)

	Minor scale
		lead to the harmonic minor scale, the same as the natural minor but with a chromatically raised seventh degree.
		The major and minor keys which share the same signature are called relative; so C major is the relative major of A minor, and C minor is the relative minor of E-flat major.
		Additional note: it is possible to construct minor scales which do not correspond to a key signature, such as D-flat minor.
	mp3.fm /Minor_scale.htm (561 words)

	MINOR SCALE
		The MINOR SCALE Event was a high-explosive test simulating the air-blast effects of an 8-KT nuclear weapon.
		MINOR SCALE was a high explosive (HE) test sponsored by the Defense Nuclear Agency.
		A 100-man keyworker blast shelter was constructed and tested at the predicted 75-psi peak overpressure level in the MINOR SCALE Event in June 1985 at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/ops/minor-scale.htm (546 words)

	E-Music Analysis
		This was generated as a piece based on the C major scale, in which the duration, L, of the longest note was one second and the length of the piece, P, was 20 seconds.
		Each set of frequencies for either a major or minor scale can be generalized to f_j = f_oq^j where f_j is the frequency in the scale*, and f_o is the root frequency.
		When generating the e-music we took the root note and randomly shifted in order to stay on the same scale but be on any of the 12 octaves.
	www.nd.edu /~nkottens/emusic/analysis.html (591 words)

	Lesson 12: Minor Scales
		This is an F-major scale in which the accidental (B-flat) has been used in place of a key signature.
		To form a melodic minor scale, take the natural minor, raise the sixth AND seventh note on the way up, and put them back to their "natural" state going down.
		Now you should know how to take a major scale, find the note upon which the relative minor scale will be constructed, and write the three forms of that minor scale.
	www.musictheory.halifax.ns.ca /12minor_scales.html (814 words)

	Music Theory: Basic Theory: Other Minor Scales
		In the pure minor scale, the chord built on the fifth degree is not a dominant seventh chord but a minor seventh chord.
		This scale is called the harmonic minor because it yields more satisfactory harmonies than the natural minor scale in that it has a dominant seventh chord on its fifth degree.
		The raised seventh degree of these minor scales is referred to as the leading tone, just as the seventh degree of the major scale is. And to avoid the augmented second, the sixth is often raised when it immediately precedes the leading tone.
	www.outsideshore.com /school/music/almanac/html/Music_Theory/Basic_Theory/Other_Minor_Scales.htm (713 words)

	D major / B minor Pentatonic Scale (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The major pentatonic scale can be considered a derivative of a "regular" major scale.
		The D major scale consists of the notes d, e, f#, g, a, b, c#.
		The scale based on the sixth degree in the key of D major reads as follows: b, c#, d, e, f#, g, a.
	www.daddydoodle.com /dbpenta.htm (551 words)

	Melodic Minor Scale - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Melodic Minor Scale, in music, a kind of minor scale in which the sixth and seventh notes are raised by a half tone when ascending and returned to...
		Harmonic Minor Scale, in music, a minor scale in which the seventh degree is raised by a semitone from its original 'natural' position.
		Raga, system of scales and associated melodic patterns that make up the basis of Indian classical music.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Melodic_Minor_Scale.html (150 words)

	The Minor Scale (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The degree VII of a minor scale is very often raised.
		The resulting scale is referred to as harmonic minor scale because the raising of degree VII is often harmonically motivated.
		The main purpose of this accidental is to facilitate the melodic movement from degree VI to degree VII, avoiding the augmented second that is formed in the harmonic minor scale.
	www.teoria.com /reference/scales/03.htm (169 words)

	Minor Scales
		Just as in the major scale each minor scale is a series of pitches using, in order, the seven letter names of the musical alphabet.
		scale has half steps between scale degrees 2-3, and 7-8 when ascending.
		Minor scales can be written beginning on any pitch when the flat, sharp, and double-sharp signs are used.
	www.alcorn.edu /musictheory/Version2/theory1/scalemin.htm (248 words)

	C) Case Study: D Minor Scale - ActoGuitar (Site not responding. Last check: )
		To see how minor scales can be used to create musical pieces, let's look at the D minor scale in the context of the Oasis song "Magic Pie." The track can be found on the band's third album, Be Here Now.
		Once again, we see a connection to the D minor scale: the chords noted above are directly connected to the noted specified in the interval structure of the D minor scale.
		By relying on the D minor scale not only for the verse and chorus but also for the bridge, Oasis was able to create a song that sounded consistent and well constructed while also containing different chords to help add a bit of diversity.
	www.actoguitar.com /xviii-learning-minor-guitar-scales/405-c-case-study-d-minor-scale.html (507 words)

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