Beginner's Corner 15: A Minor Scale Lesson

- Ivan Milenkovic15th September 2011
  Very cool lesson, with a catchy melody, and showing important aspects for beginners. Everyone who needs to develop their ear and finger skills around minor scale should check out this.
- Adrian Figallo15th September 2011
  thats a cool and sad melody
- Sinisa Cekic16th September 2011
  Nice lesson and melody
- Bogdan Radovic16th September 2011
  Fun way to learn scales!
- mgcornea17th September 2011
  It would be kind of nice if the tabs were more spread out... it's a bit of a pain to scroll down every two notes. Other than that, it's been helpful!
- Bogdan Radovic17th September 2011
  QUOTE (mgcornea @ Sep 17 2011, 01:17 AM)
  It would be kind of nice if the tabs were more spread out... it's a bit of a pain to scroll down every two notes. Other than that, it's been helpful!
  
  Thanks for your input! This is fixed now - check it out
- newguyatgmc17th September 2011
  nice
- Kristofer Dahl20th September 2011
  Excellent Bear - I love this series, especially your encouraging words at then end!

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- Tags: Minor, Scale, Theory, Beginner
Hey GMC'ers!

Welcome to another Beginner's Corner lesson. Moving on in our journey through the first scales, we're learning the full Minor Scale today. This takes our knowledge from the minor pentatonic scale and adds a few notes to make it a complete minor scale.

Tonality and Chord Progression:
This tune is in the key of A minor and the chord progression is as follows:

Am, Dm, Am, C, G (x2)
Dm, Em, Dm, F,
Dm, Em, F, G,
Am, Dm, Am, C, G (x2)
F#m

Equipment & Sound:
For this lesson I used an Epiphone Les Paul on the bridge pickup setting. I ran it through a Tech 21 Liverpool pedal for the overdrive and amp simulation. I then added a little bit of delay and reverb.

Tuning:
A 440 Standard

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Let's get started!
/ Bear

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