Natural minor scale 3-notes-per-string for guitars (intervals)

Minor scale · 3-notes-per-string

(intervals in A minor)


III phrygian

IV lydian

V mixo- lydian

VI aeolian

VII locrian

I ionian

II dorian

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Intervals of the 3-notes-per-string natural minor scale

The structure of the natural minor scale corresponds to the intervals root (1), second (2), minor third (m3), fourth (4), fifth (5), minor sixth (b6) and minor seventh (b7). A distinct fingering is formed from each of these seven notes and named according to natural modes I-VII. To move these patterns to other keys than A minor, use the transposing table.

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Intervals of the 3-notes-per-string natural minor scale