Hi everybody,
I have a challenge for you:
What's the best, snappiest and most easily-digestible (for a 10 year old) way of explaining WHY minor scales contain notes that are not in the key signature?
Saying "that's just the way it is" doesn't seem to quite cut it!
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I've been getting them to play the natural minor by telling them to play the major scale but starting and finishing on the 6th note.
From here we think about how the end doesn't really sound like athe end but if you raise the note before the last by a semitone it gives that finished sound.
Probably not very technical but it seems to work.
From here we think about how the end doesn't really sound like athe end but if you raise the note before the last by a semitone it gives that finished sound.
Probably not very technical but it seems to work.
Yes I'd usually do something similar too.
Start with C major, show them that A natural minor has the same key signature, then tell them about the rasied 7th for the harmonic minor. We might look at some music books and look for pieces in minors keys, and spot the raised 7th accidentals
Start with C major, show them that A natural minor has the same key signature, then tell them about the rasied 7th for the harmonic minor. We might look at some music books and look for pieces in minors keys, and spot the raised 7th accidentals
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