The chords symbols just refer to this fact, warning us that their root notes are lower than what we would expect from a major scale. Here are the notes for the C major and C minor scale:Īs you see, the 3rd, 6th, and 7th notes in the minor scale are “flatted” respect to the major scale. Why is that? Well, to understand it you have to know that everything in music theory is written in respect to the major scale, not the minor scale. In particular, the 3rd, 6th, and 7th chords are marked with the flat sign. Here it is:Īs you can see, some of the chord numerals, on the first row of the table, have a flat sign in front. The first note of a minor key is always associated with a minor chord, the second note always with a minor chord, and so on.Īs I did for the major scale, I compiled for you a table with all the chords for every minor key. With this I mean that the order in which the major and minor chords appear is always the same. The chord structure for the minor scale is the same for all keys. In other words, every note in the scale is associated with a chord.
The chords associated with the A minor scale are A minor, B diminished, C major, D minor, E minor, F major, G major. The chords from a scale are strictly related with the notes on a scale an A minor scale is made by the notes A B C D E F G (see our previous lesson on that, linked above). On the other hand, the order of these chords in the natural minor scale is different than it was for the major scale. Today instead we will have a look at the chords associated with the minor scale and how to use them to compose your own songs.Įxactly like the major scale, any minor scale is associated with a set of seven chords - three major, three minor, one diminished.
On a previous lesson we have seen how to play the natural minor scale on the guitar.
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