We've been away for two months with no access to a piano. I have just looked at daughter's piano notebook and discovered that she is supposed to have practised "C minor" scale. It doesn't say which minor and, although my daughter thinks she was shown which notes to play it is now so long ago she can't remember.

Does anyone who lives/teaches in France know which minor scale they usually start with? (She hasn't learnt the theory of minor scales yet, if that makes a difference).

I don't live in France (sorry!), but two things occurred to me:

1) Which type of minor does your daughter usually learn, or start with? (I'm assuming this that C minor isn't her first ever minor scale.)
2) Would it be hugely confusing to play it safe and learn both the harmonic and melodic?

Unfortunately it is her first minor scale - otherwise I would have just done the same as the others. Elder daughter has played no minor scale on either instrument (so no help there) and my oboe teacher only once asked me to play a minor scale and when I asked "which one" he was very surprised that I knew more than one and said "which ever you like".



She hasn't learnt Eb major scale (she only plays a scale once in a blue moon) so I was hoping to teach it by rote. And daughter is the sort of child who will look at her notebook and say it says one scale not two (or three if I include the natural minor).

Sorry my reply wasn't hugely helpful. Perhaps your oboe teacher's response is a clue and it won't matter which one your daughter learns!