Major and Minor
Published on Mar 21, 2016
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Most music is based on a scale:
a series of notes, in a certain order.
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Music can change scales based on where we start and end.
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Major sounds upbeat, happy, or "normal".
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To sing a major scale, you find "do", and sing a scale that begins and ends there.
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The scale that we're concentrating on this week is called
minor.
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Minor music sounds sad, scary, or sometimes thoughtful.
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To sing a minor scale,
you find "do", and sing a scale that begins and ends on "la".
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The weirdest thing about Major and minor is that they use the same pieces.
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That means that if you have a Major scale on "do", all you have to do is start singing it on la instead and end up minor.
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This is called a "related" key.
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For example: if we sing a song in the common key of G Major...
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We could easily move to the related key of e minor, just by changing our starting place.
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Some songs actually have sections that are Major, and ALSO sections that are minor!
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Here is the secret to the minor and Major scales: the third note.
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By the third note, you can tell if it is Major or minor. This is because the third note is lower in minor than it is in Major.
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