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Title: relative minor key signatures Post by: sweetcool on April 15, 2004, 10:42:24 PM hello, I posted this on another board, but got no responses. Hopefully I'll have more luck here. Just had a question about harmonizing my scales. If suppose I was playing in Cmajor, if I wanted to use a minor scale, what would I use? Would I use a Cminor or an Aminor because this is the relative minor to Cmajor. If anybody can help me out it'd be great, thx!
Title: Re:relative minor key signatures Post by: Pviljoen on April 15, 2004, 11:03:15 PM You would use Aminor.
Cminor is the relative minor of C major. The relative major of C minor is Eb major, hopefully you can see the difference. If you are in a major key and want to modulate to a minor one, it's best as a beginner to modulate to the relative minor (you find that key by going down 3 semi tones). Remember that if it is a harmonic minor, you sharp the 7th of the scale. Title: Re:relative minor key signatures Post by: Oddy on April 15, 2004, 11:04:15 PM you would use the c minor scale i think.
ofcourse you don't have to though, you can use minor scales in the key of the 3rd and 5th of the c major scale and they will still sound ok........very different....but still harmonized. i dunno music theory isn't my thing, im not good at explaining it at all. i think i just confused myself. Title: Re:relative minor key signatures Post by: gypsy eyes on April 16, 2004, 09:24:59 AM Simply Aminor, like Pviljoen explained, it's the minor of Cmajor
for Cmajor you have Aminor, for Dmajor you have Bbminor, etc. CM ->Am DM ->Bbm EbM ->Cm F#M ->Cm GM ->Ebm AM ->Fm BbM ->Gm I hope this is correct, haven't used that table in quite a while, the only ones I use are CM and Am... There are more then these, the trick is simply: to go from a major to a minor you go down three notes, three whole notes that is!! Like CM, you got do, three notes = do si la, so you get la=A: Am But like I said it has to be a whole note! so if you only got a half note (mi-fa and si-do) you have to make it whole by using a b or a # To go from minor to major just the other way around, add three notes. Do you understand a little? My english isn't grand I know ;D Title: Re:relative minor key signatures Post by: Oddy on April 16, 2004, 01:34:31 PM yeah pilv and gypsey are right..........i just confused myself beyond belief.
doh doh doh Title: Re:relative minor key signatures Post by: blues_rock_axeman on April 17, 2004, 11:09:46 AM Play something until it sounds roughly in key, then bitch about the monitor guy. :)
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