D minor scale on piano

The notes of the D minor scale

D E F G A B♭ C

Formula: 1 2 ♭3 4 5 ♭6 ♭7. Steps from note to note: 2 1 2 2 1 2 2 semitones (whole, half, whole, whole, half, whole, whole).

D minor is natural minor: 1 flat: B♭, the same notes as F major, its relative major.

In Hz, from D4: D4 293.7 · E4 329.6 · F4 349.2 · G4 392.0 · A4 440.0 · B♭4 466.2 · C5 523.3.

The D minor scale on the piano

White keys: D E F G A C; black keys: B♭.

Fingering for one octave up: right hand 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5, left hand 5 4 3 2 1 3 2 1 (1 = thumb). The same fingers come back down.

One flat

D minor shares B♭ with F major, its relative. The fingering is C major's; the right hand plays B♭ with the 4th finger. Bach's Toccata and Fugue and Mozart's Requiem are in D minor.

More scales

Minor scale on piano D minor scale on guitar A minor scale on piano E minor scale on piano C minor scale on piano G minor scale on piano D minor: scale and chords

How this page works

Hear it plays the scale up and down at 100 BPM on one of four Brumm sounds. Take it gives the same notes as a MIDI file and a WAV. − and + move the root. Every note here is computed from the formula.

Sources

Scales and modes: Open Music Theory, musictheory.net. Piano fingerings: the standard scale-book fingerings (ABRSM scale books; Hanon, The Virtuoso Pianist, part 3). Trumpet valves: the standard B♭ trumpet fingering chart (Yamaha, Bach). Hz: A4 = 440 Hz, ISO 16.

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