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Minor scale
The natural minor scale: whole, half, whole, whole, half, whole, whole. Every key's notes in a table, on piano and guitar, heard at a tap, with MIDI and WAV.
In the minor scale, the top note here is A5, 880.0 Hz. Mika stops there.Tap Hear it, or tap any note on the board.
A B C D E F G
The notes of the A minor scale
A B C D E F G
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).
A minor is natural minor: no sharps or flats, the same notes as C major, its relative major.
The minor scale in all twelve keys
| Root | Notes |
|---|---|
| C | C D E♭ F G A♭ B♭ |
| C♯ | C♯ D♯ E F♯ G♯ A B |
| D | D E F G A B♭ C |
| E♭ | E♭ F G♭ A♭ B♭ C♭ D♭ |
| E | E F♯ G A B C D |
| F | F G A♭ B♭ C D♭ E♭ |
| F♯ | F♯ G♯ A B C♯ D E |
| G | G A B♭ C D E♭ F |
| G♯ | G♯ A♯ B C♯ D♯ E F♯ |
| A | A B C D E F G |
| B♭ | B♭ C D♭ E♭ F G♭ A♭ |
| B | B C♯ D E F♯ G A |
Natural, harmonic, melodic: which minor?
When someone says "the minor scale" they mean natural minor, the one on this page: the major scale with its 3rd, 6th and 7th lowered, or the same notes as its relative major started two notes lower. Harmonic minor raises the 7th again so the chord on the fifth turns major; melodic minor raises the 6th and 7th going up. Both have their own pages, linked below.
More scales
Minor scale on guitar Minor scale on piano Minor scale on bass Major scale Pentatonic scale Chromatic scale
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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