Author: Modern Music Theory

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Today a quick look at the Chords,Scale and Arpeggios of the A natural minor scale.

To begin with this scale is exactly the same as the C Major scale but starting on the 6th degree:

Chords of Major

Chords of A natural minor

Next we will play through and exploit and “Colour” the arpeggios of the scale:

A minor

B Diminished

C Major 7th

D minor

E minor

F Major

G Major

We will now descend in broken chords in groups of 4 notes.

Exploiting the arpeggios over different chords of the scale:

Here are a few examples of playing a different arpeggio over a different chord of the scale:

Scale ideas:

Here is a basic way of breaking up the scale by employing triplets:

First we will do this on one string:

Now we will cross all 6 strings:

This time we will employ 16th’s in 4 note groupings of “Tetrachords” creating a double time smooth pentatonic line.

We can change the Dominant [minor] chord in the A natural minor scale and make it Major:

With this in mind we realise that the G natural is now a G# and so we can employ the A Harmonic minor scale to play over it.

Here is a simple 2 finger fingering:

Now, let’s extend this:

We could also use the E7 Arpeggio:

Finally, we have a lick with an arpeggio [that also implies a triad pair] going to a pentatonic phrase:

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