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I'm not sure if this is the answer your looking for, but by playing a scale, starting on the sixth degree in a major scale (also called aeolian mode), you will essentially be playing a natural minor scale. Specifically, the relative minor.

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What step of its relative major scale does the minor scale begin on?

A minor scale begins on the sixth step of its relative major scale. For example, the A minor scale is the relative minor of C major, and it starts on the sixth degree of the C major scale. This relationship allows the minor scale to share the same key signature as its relative major scale.


What is difference between a flat and a minor on the keyboard?

A flat is the note that is a half step down from the note with the flat sign. A minor is the name of a type of scale, which is the scale starting with the minor note it's named after. For example, the B minor scale would start with B minor, as opposed to starting with C (the first note of the common C major scale).


What is The 7th scale degree in the C harmonic minor scale is?

The 7th scale degree in the C harmonic minor scale is B natural. In the harmonic minor scale, the seventh degree is raised by a half step compared to the natural minor scale, resulting in this alteration. The C harmonic minor scale consists of the notes C, D, E♭, F, G, A♭, and B natural.


What is a series of 8 pitches that can be a major or minor called?

A Major/Minor scale.


What is the difference between a minor and major key?

Each major key has a relative minor key and vice versa. For example a key signature with one sharp can refer to either the G major or the e minor keys. For major keys there is only one scale type. For minor keys there are 3: pure, harmonic, and melodic. In pure(natural) minor none of the scale degrees are altered. In harmonic minor the seventh scale degree is raised half a step. In melodic minor the seventh and the sixth scale degrees are raised half a step, ascending and returned to their pure minor descending.

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What is the Name for the third degree of a major or minor scale?

The third scale degree is called the mediant.


What step of its relative major scale does the minor scale begin on?

A minor scale begins on the sixth step of its relative major scale. For example, the A minor scale is the relative minor of C major, and it starts on the sixth degree of the C major scale. This relationship allows the minor scale to share the same key signature as its relative major scale.


How can one find the minor scale from a major scale?

To find the minor scale from a major scale, you can start on the sixth note of the major scale. This note becomes the first note of the minor scale. Then, follow the same pattern of whole and half steps as the major scale, but starting from the new first note. This will give you the natural minor scale.


How does a relative major scale begin?

A relative major scale begins on the same note as its relative minor scale, but starts on a different degree of the scale.


How can one determine the relative minor of a major key?

To determine the relative minor of a major key, you can find the sixth note of the major scale. This note is the starting point for the relative minor scale.


What is the relationship between major and minor pentatonic scales?

The major and minor pentatonic scales share the same notes, but they have different starting points. The major pentatonic scale starts on the 1st note of the major scale, while the minor pentatonic scale starts on the 6th note of the major scale.


What does subdominant mean in musical terms?

The subdominant is usually the fourth scale degree of a major or minor scale.


What is a diatonic scale?

Any major or minor scale with eight notes starting on Do (the tonic note).


What is the quality of triad six in a major key?

If this question is asking about the quality of the chord built on the 6th scale degree in a major scale, then the answer is minor.


How can one determine the relative minor of a major key in music theory?

To determine the relative minor of a major key in music theory, you can find the sixth note of the major scale. This note is the starting point for the relative minor scale.


What are the minor keys and its definition?

The minor keys usually have a darker sound and feel to them - as opposed to the major keys which sound generally brighter. The minor keys are based on the sixth degree of a given major scale (lets take D major as an example, if we go up six steps in this scale we get the notes D, E, F♯, G, A, and B). So B minor will have the same key signature as D major (with two sharps). In a major scale there are four semitones between the first and third degrees of the scale but in minor keys there are only three semitones. So in the D major scale the third scale degree (mediant) is F♯ but the same degree in D minor if F♮ (natural). As with the major keys, minor keys can also contain up to seven sharps or flats in their key signature too.


What is the scale degree of C?

It depends on which key. It's the tonic in C major/minor, the 2nd in Bb major/minor, the 3rd in Ab major and A minor, the 4th in G major/minor, the 5th in F major/minor, the 6th in Eb major and E minor, and the 7th in Db major and D natural minor.