Key Signatures - Minor Keys

KEY SIGNATURES - MINOR SCALES

“What do you get when you drop a piano down a mine shaft?”

Answer: A FLAT MINOR

RELATIVE SCALES are a minor third apart - Major scale above, minor scale below.  Here are the steps:

• Work out the major key signature.
• Work a third down through the major scale from the tonic [to the sixth note or submediant], and this will give you the keynote [or tonic] of the relative minor scale.
• Remember that the seventh note [second last] of the minor scale is raised a semitone.
• If you know the minor keynote, you will need to do the opposite to find the relative major - go a minor third higher - and then work out the key signature.

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