To use it, simply play the harmonic minor scale built off of the root of the tonic or root of the I chord – so for a minor II-V-I in C minor, play a C harmonic minor scale. The harmonic minor scale works great over minor II-V’s. In addition to simplifying the way you think about a II-V-I, the harmonic major automatically liberates you from that often droll “church mode” sound and gets you playing a hip, “exotic” sounding scale. Four different kinds of F sharp minor scale. It works over all three chords and has a strong sense of tonality and unity. The key signature of F sharp minor scale has three sharps (3) because its relative major key is A Major scale. The harmonic minor is perfect for generating hip II-V-I lines because it has the b9 and b13 of the V7 chord embedded in it and it allows you to simplify the entire II-V-I into one single reductive scale. When you use this scale over a minor II-V-I in C minor, you end up with a D Locrian (natural 6) scale over the II (half dim.) chord, a G Phrygian (natural 3) scale over the V7 chord, and C Aeolian (natural 7) – the tonic harmonic minor – over the I- chord. The roman numeral for number 6 is ' VI' and is used to indicate this is the 6th triad chord in the scale. This submediant chord's root / starting note is the 6th note (or scale degree) of the F harmonic minor scale. You can read my recent post for a recap of what the harmonic minor scale is and how it’s derived. The F-sharp harmonic minor chord VI is the D major chord, and contains the notes D, F, and A. The harmonic minor scale is used a lot in jazz, especially in vocabulary from the bebop and hard bop eras (the melody to “Donna Lee” is just one example). I kept this as a separate post because the harmonic minor is so specialized that it deserves its own dedicated post. In this post, I want to cover more in depth the main way the harmonic minor scale is often used over II-V-I’s. I have also mentioned the harmonic minor scale in passing when talking about minor II-V-I’s. This is done because blues (and pentatonic scales) do not follow the 'usual' music theory rules that hold for diatonic scales, such as major and all minor varieties, which state that each note from A.G can only be used once in the scale.įor the blues scale, the half-step / semitone closeness of notes around the 4th and 5th notes usually mean it is inevitable that a note name will be used twice in the scale, so it makes sense to use the chromatic scale names for all notes.In my recent post on the harmonic major scale, I talked about ways to construct II-V-I lines using one single scale. Wherever possible, complex note names from the major scale are simplified to arrive at the final blues scale notes.įor example, in the Gb blues scale, the 4th note of the major scale Cb is simplified to be note B. F-sharp blues scale from the F-sharp major scale No. f sharp major scale on piano two octave Bing.
F sharp major scale is the relative major of D sharp minor. Notes of the F Sharp Major Scale on a piano keyboard and in ascending order on a staff: F Sharp Major Key Signature The key signature of F sharp major scale has 6 sharps: F, C, G, D, A and E. Scale Fingerings Harmonic Minor Scales Note: These are the scale fingerings going UP.
The 7th note is the octave of the tonic note, where the pattern begins to repeat itself. F Sharp Major and G Flat Major Scales Piano Music 49 in F minor, La Passione, and Vivaldis The Four. Some famous pieces in the key of F minor are Beethovens Appassionata Sonata, Haydns Symphony No. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. F minor is a key that people often link with passion. So for this major scale, the 5th note of the major scale is flattened from C# to C to make the blue note.īelow are those notes numbered 1 to 6 on the piano keyboard. Its relative major is A-flat major, and its parallel major is F major. The flattened 5th is the blue note that gives the blues scale its distinctive sound in this key. To flatten a note, just replace it with the piano key lower in pitch ie. The 2nd and 6th notes of the major scale are not used. The blues scale is made from the 1st, flattened 3rd, 4th, flattened 5th, 5th and flattened 7th notes from the major scale above. This step shows the 6 blues scale notes constructed using the major scale of the same key.
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