Download free piano sheet music for major, minor harmonic, and minor melodic scales for all keys. Among all the scales and arpeggios, major and minor ones are a good place to start. Bellingham music teachers association scale and arpeggio fingering chart for piano major and minor scales and arpeggios two octaves chromatic scale. When you go up the scale, you are using the melodic minor scale, but when you go down the scale you are using the natural minor scale.
We provide downloads for common scales including major, the three minor scales natural, harmonic, and melodic, the blues scale, and others. Melodic minor scales jyttes piano sheet collection. Free printable pdf downloads with notes and fingerings for scales in every key. Minor scales cheat sheet harmonic minor raise the 7 th scale degree melodic minor raise the 6 th and 7 th scale degree ascending, revert to. Every major and minor scale melodic and harmonic in both music notation and keyboard view. Harmonic minor scales flute lexcerpts sheet music for. How to play and practice scales and arpeggios for pianists. We call scales relative if they share the same key signature. How to form major pentatonic scales on piano one way of forming the pentatonic is to use the following formula after picking the starting note of the scale. A minor scales, arpeggio and tonic triad for grade 1 piano students pdf sheet music. This selection and arrangement of content as a collection is.
Starting from any key on the piano you can play a scale. Translating to sharp, when the note needs to be raised by one semitone. Natural, harmonic, and melodic forms margaret denton, piano. You can make a major and a minor scale starting with any note on the piano. This page shows piano and treble clef diagrams of all minor scales, starting from note c. Jazz piano lessons stepbystep lessons to master jazz theory. How to play piano chords playing a c chord turn on the keyboard by pressing the button titled power or onoff. Contrary to the major scale, there are not one but three minor scales, which all will be presented here.
We are already familiar with the modes of the major scale, but we can create modes from any preexisting scale. When you go up the scale, you are using the melodic minor scale, but when you go down the scale. The three types of minor scales and how to form them. The black keys on your piano are pentatonic and theyre in the key of g flat and its relative minor, e flat minor. How to explain harmonic minor scales to piano students. Label the scale degrees of the major pentatonic scales. From each key on the piano you can start either a major or a minor scale. In these videos, i teach students about harmonic minor scales, using staff notation and piano examples. A scale is a stepwise arrangement of notespitches contained within an octave. Each scale has a different use and application in jazz piano. There are 3 groups and its easier to learn a particular finger pattern and apply it to the group rather than learn each scale separately. Print and download in pdf or midi natural minor scales. The main scales of western music are major and minor scales. We call scales relativeif they share the same key signature.
Natural minor scale a scale that contains halfsteps between 23 and 56 scale degrees the natural form. List of all natural minor scales piano music theory. Look for the key function on the keyboard, titled voice. A scale is a series of notes pitches arranged from lowest to highest. In music, the term scale refers to a pattern of notes ordered by pitch. Every piano scale and arpeggio that you will ever need. Free major and minor scales for piano sheet music dion moult. Learning the major and minor scales for piano are one of the fundamental skills in a musicians education. Major and minor scales contain seven notes or scale degrees.
Each minor scale has a di erent use and application in jazz piano and so learning how to construct and apply each one is an important skill. The difference between these two scales is the pattern of whole and halfsteps that you use to build them. Once on the middle, count 4 keys to reach e the second note of the c chord. Major and minor pentatonic scales in the most used keys in both music notation and keyboard view. There are 12 major and 12 minor piano music scales. Download our piano scale finger charts for the major scale, harmonic minor scale and more. This scale can sometimes confuse people because it is in a way identical to the major scale. In jazz, the modes of the melodic minor scale are very widely used. As we have already learned, a mode is a scale created by establishing a new root note within a preexisting scale. You can learn how to form other melodic and harmonic minor scales at our main piano music scales section. Every scale determines a key,that is an harmonic combunation of tones based on that scale. Minor scales are built on the 6th scale degree of a major scale.
Blues scales in the most used keys in both music notation and. Scales are the fundamentals of any piano learning course. All keys are shown, including the commonly used 12 keys of the circle of fifths diagram, and other theoretical ie. All minor scales illustrated with pictures including notes and fingerings. Scales include major, harmonic minor, and melodic minor varieties. Melodic minor modes and altered scale the jazz piano site. Barbara murphy university of tennessee school of music major and minor scales half and whole steps. The melodic minor scale differs from the natural minor scale by the sixth and seventh notes, which are raised a semistep. Natural, harmonic and melodic forms about minor scales. These make great handouts for piano teachers to use with students. Major and minor harmonic and melodic scales, 4 octaves, hands together, correct fingerings. This pack includes ten pages of scales with the following features.
Basically, each of the twelve notes in an octave c, csharp, d, dsharp, e, f, fsharp, g, gsharp, a, asharp, and b can be the beginning of a scale, and the scale is named by the beginning note. The a minor scale include exactly the same notes as the c major scale which makes them relative keys read. Remember, if youre looking at a major scale, lower scale degrees 3, 6, and 7 to get the minor scale. Feel free to send these videos to parents for their kids to watch, use it in group lessons or as part of lab time. Single octave natural minor scales with fingerings for piano. Harmonic minor scale and chords, natural and melodic minor. This scale is also some kind of peculiar since it is sometimes played differently ascending and descending.
The key difference between major and minor scaes is that notes on a major scale sound bright and cheerful, while notes on a minor scale sound solemn and sad. Here ive organised them in groups of fingering rather than keys. Natural minor scales sheet music for piano download free. Then notate its relative minor scale and its scale degrees. Each scale is provided as a separate pdf download with finger numbers above each note. All 12 major scales share the same pattern of whole and half steps between the notes. The relative minor for a major key falls on the 6th tone of the major scale. The natural minor scale is often referred to simply as the minor scale. The most common scales when playing the piano, are major and minor scales. Alright, time to add scales to your technique training.
You can easily see them as 7 white keys, and 5 black. You can printout the pdf below which is all major scale for practise at the piano. Play scales very slowly with big bows keeping an even tone across the bow stroke practice scales with a drone pitch using the first note of the scale memorize the scales occasionally use a tuner to help you tune each pitch. Minor scales are built on the 6thscale degree of a major scale to quickly find a major keys relative minor, count down 3 halfsteps from the tonic note of the major scale remember to start with the tonic then count downdont count. Answers on page 7 a closer look at the major and minor pentatonic scales in the traditional ionian major and aeolian natural minor scales, there exists a tritone augmented 4 th diminished 5 th between the 4 th and 7 th. Major scales keyboard fingerings cmajor c d e f g a b c rh 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5. The two scales you use most frequently when you play the piano and the most famous scales in western music are the major and the minor scales.
Meter, scales, and key signatures because the white keys running from c to the next c an octave higher form a sequence of notes that have minor 2nds only between ef the 3rd and 4th notes and bc the 7th and 8th notes, musicians call that series of notes a c major scale. Harmonic minor scale fingerings pdf best piano tips. Scales, arpeggios and cadences, two octaves margaret denton, piano major scales, arpeggios, and cadences, 2 octaves these scales are arranged pianistically by groups according to fingering patterns to facilitate memorization harmonic form of the minor scale is shown. Learn how to play piano chords, notes, scales, proper. The idea behind doing this was basically that i couldnt find any chord diagrams that werent either being charged for or. For the melodic scale in a, it will look like this. Playing scales on piano has the added benefit of encouraging visual memory. The scale in all keys can be downloaded as a pdffile. Easy piano sheet music free, the snake charmer, now with an easiertoread arrangement just for young, socially distant students. Chords for piano compiled by simon creedy please distribute freely the contents of this pdf file can be distributed freely and are available to everyone.
Listen to mccoy tyner and john coltrane to get an understanding of the types of sounds created through improvising with pentatonic scales. In this guide, we will cover piano scales in depth and cover all major scales, minor scales, tones, semitones, chromatic scales briefly. The 3 types of minor scales in music musicnotes now. The natural minor scale is the naturally occurring diatonic scale with no altered scale degrees or added accidentals. The eight notes in a scale with the first and last notes an. All scales are made with a specific pattern of whole steps tones and half steps semitones.