Saxophone Scale Exercises: A Minor

Video Transcript

"O'kay now I would like to just talk a little about minor scales. The two most basic kind of scales in the whole world are major and minor scales. The minor scale is basically just a major scale with the third interval and the seventh interval lowered a half step. Sounds a little bit cooler than the major scale and it is used in different applications in your music, sometimes you play the major sometimes you play the minor. There is no better scale, not one is better than the other but it does sound a little bit cooler. So the A minor scale is just an A major scale with the C sharp flatted to a C natural and the G sharp flatted to a G natural. I will just demonstrate that for you real fast. The fingering of this, A, B, C natural, D, E, F sharp, G natural this time, A. Coming back down, A, G, F sharp, E, D, C, B, A. I will just play that through real fast for you so you can hear the difference. Here is an A minor scale and you can hear the difference. Here is the A major one more time. So there is two notes different that makes a big difference in the overall sound of the actual scale. Try that a few times, move up in speed and get it worked out."