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Summary: Learn tips on how to play an A minor scale on the cello in this free video clip on musical instruments and music theory.
As an Austin multi-instrumentalist musician, Francis Joseph Santori composes and performs live electronic music playing electiric and acoustic instruments such as bass, sarod, oud,...read more
"Here we're going to discuss the A minor scale. It's different notes compared to the A major scale. And the fact that the A minor scale is actually the relative minor to the C major scale. Therefore, the notes that you find in the C major scale are also the A minor scale. So the notes in the A minor scale are A, B, C, D, E, F, G. And back to A. The difference is being between it and the minor scale and the major is that your C is a C sharp. As oppose to the C natural, which occurs in the minor scale. C natural, minor. A major scale is the C sharp. So, F sharp also occurs in the A major scale. It goes to an F natural. G occurs in the A minor scale. It's G sharp and the A major scale, so. A minor scale."
eHow Article: How to Play the A Minor Scale on Cello