C Minor Scale for Piano Improvisation in E

Video Transcript

"Now we're going to get our last minor chord, our relative minor, out of E major, which is C sharp minor. If we start on E and count out to 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, we land on C sharp. There's your C sharp minor chord. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. There's 1, 3, 5, and 7. Now we can play our 1, 6 and our 2 and 5 chord. Right? 1, E major, 6, C sharp minor, 2, F sharp minor, and 5. You see that progression everywhere. 1, 6, 2, 5, 1, 6, 2, 5. Now we have our 4 basic chords, and we're going to through and read all these different chords as we go through our first tunes, which uses just these 4 chords in a nice simple progression. "