The Natural Minor Scale on a Twelve String Guitar

Video Transcript

"I’m a professional guitar instructor and today we’ll be going over the 12 string guitar. Next, I’d like to discuss with you the natural minor scale. First, how to play that scale and then how to harmonize that scale. The natural minor scale is created by flatting the third, the sixth and the seventh notes of the major scale. So we’ve taken this major scale. Here I’ll play an A major scale and created an A natural minor scale. There’s my flatted third, my flatted sixth, and my flatted seven. That’s a moveable scale pattern. I can play that here a C off the fifth string. Okay. I can play it here a G. How it harmonizes out is by combining every other note in groups of three. Starting with my A note, we come up with an A minor chord by combining A, C, and E. A B diminished chord for my two chord. A C major chord for my three chord, D minor for my four chord, E minor for my five chord, F major for my six chord, and G major for my seventh chord in the key. Of course, this resolves back to A minor. I can take and combine certain chords from that. Let’s say for example I wanted to do another 1, 4, 5 chord progression using this A natural minor scale. That would consist of an A minor chord, a D minor, an E minor."