Skills · Scales & harmony
Minor colours
Tell apart natural and harmonic minor, hearing the note that changes the colour.
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Practised in these lessons
- Lesson 71
Major and minor: one note changes
Hear C major and C minor when only E changes to E flat.
Open → - Lesson 101
A natural minor: a new colour on the white keys
Read A natural minor on the white keys; G natural is a whole step from A.
Open → - Lesson 102
A harmonic minor: G sharp pulls home
Read the harmonic minor scale; the 7th is raised a semitone, leading to the tonic.
Open → - Lesson 103
E harmonic minor: F sharp and D sharp
Read the harmonic minor scale; the 7th is raised a semitone, leading to the tonic.
Open → - Lesson 104
D harmonic minor: B flat and C sharp
Read the harmonic minor scale; the 7th is raised a semitone, leading to the tonic.
Open → - Lesson 105
A minor: i–iv–V–i
Play Am–Dm–E–Am with the major V from the harmonic scale.
Open → - Lesson 190
Complete piece: Song in A minor
A 12-bar piece in A minor: G sharp pulls back to A, the i–iv–V–i progression.
Open → - Lesson 111
Seven chords in C
Name the Roman numeral and major/minor/diminished for each degree.
Open → - Lesson 160
Afternoon on the porch
The i-iv-v-i progression and a gentle minor colour
In Peaceful Days · 18 short pieces
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