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Hi Guys,
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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