Minor keys and the natural Minor Scale

The difference between the major and the minor keys lie is the tone-semitone arrangement they follow. For a quick refresher here are the notes of the C - major scale, which i think is the easiest to remember :

C   D   E   F   G   A   B   C   

I personally never am able to remember the tone semitone pattern that major keys follow, but it is easy to remember the C major scale, so i always tend to derive the pattern from the C scale. Remember that the E-F distance and B-C distance is a semitone. So from the scale I can easily derive that the pattern followed is

Root + T + T + S + T + T + T + S  

(T -> Tone, S -> Semitone)

Now Let's derive the pattern that a Minor scale follows. If you remember from the last lesson we found that the Relative minor of the C - major Scale is the A minor scale which essentially just means that they share all the same notes , so there are no sharps or flats in the A minor scale. So writing the A minor scale is also fairly easy and simple. It is : 

  A   B   C   D   E   F   G   A 

Try and find the pattern yourself this time ? 

it will be something like :

  Root + T + S + T + T + S + T + T

Now, there are actually types of minor tone-semitone arrangement, what we just derived is called the Natural Minor Scale in the coming lesson we'll also be learning about another type of minor scale called the Harmonic Minor Scale, but that's for the next lesson. 

Now here's a fun fact if you did not know, minor keys are generally used for sad songs and major keys for happy ! 

Below I'll just insert the stave with an A - minor octave going up and down and that's it for this lesson 

That's it for this lesson, the next we'll cover the harmonic which I personally really like. 

until then 

PEACE ! 🎼 👈 that’s a treble clef btw :)