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Hi, how'ya doing, Justin here!

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Welcome to
Minor Chord Scale Relations!

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And in this lesson we're going to be
looking at the relationship of the

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C maj scale to the chords A min, E min
and D min; which are the 3 chords

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in the key of C. We're gonna look at it
exactly the same way as we looked at

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the major chords in the C Major scale,


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So, let's get to a close-up and
check out how to do this.

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So, just very quickly, we're gonna revise
the C major scale, so we have this:

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G, F, E, D, C, B, A, G, F, E, D,
C, B, A, G, F and E.

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♪

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So, the chords that we're
looking at today: the 1st one is Am (♪)

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And now we're looking at how to play
that scale kind of based around

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our Am chord. So we have here: G (♪)
- just with the little finger, nice, easy one (♪)

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to get the F note, our 1st finger
has to just lay over (♪)

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and then back to normal for our E note.

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On the 2nd string, little finger
just goes down on the 3rd fret

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to get our D note, lifts off to regular
for our C note and 1st finger lifts off

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to get the note B (♪). Next string: we just
play the regular note for A, lift it off for G.

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Now, we don't tend to use
these other ones as much, but we've

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also got F, E, D. We can't really play
the C there, because it interrupts with

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the A root note, so: ♪
That's generally all of the ones we play.

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We don't tend to play those: ♪
Well, that's worth knowing to...

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you might wanna do a little run-down like
that sometime: ♪. It sounds kind of funky.

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♪

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Just explore it. Just like I'm doing now:


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♪

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And see the way that the scale and the
Am chord kinda lock together.

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So, the 2nd chord that we're looking at
today is E minor: (♪). Now, generally, for this

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particular one you wanna be using be your
2nd and 3rd fingers, but there's

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other options, as you know with the
E minor chord, you can play it with any

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2, kinda consecutive fingers and you're
gonna be fine. But because our melody:

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♪

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is here, it makes sense to use the
middle two fingers. So, of course,

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little finger, 1st finger, open,
little finger, 1st finger, open,

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little finger on the A, open,
little finger, if you're gonna go this far

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on the F, E, lift it off for D, put it
back on for C, lift it off for B, open.

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♪

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Don't tend to: (♪)
Although of course: (♪)

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just like the A minor:

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Just have a bit of an experiment.
That's all I'm asking you to do,

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is to play around with the relationship (♪)
between this scale and the chord of Em

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Now, there's one more minor chord
to look at, it's the D minor

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Now, D minor in open position with the
C major scale's a little bit awkward,

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because it's only using the thinnest
4 strings, anyway. So, we can get (♪)

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We've got that much.

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♪

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But we don't tend to use...'cos it uses...
Has to require some kind of pretty weird

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stretching things to get there.
So, generally, you'd wanna do

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D min using your 1st, 2nd and 3rd fingers,
little finger down for the note G, off for F,

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1st finger off to get to the E.
On the 2nd string: we've already got

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the note D, 1st finger on the C,
open for the B.

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♪

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And then, we've got that:

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♪

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I'll be honest, I tend to avoid this chord
because there's no...

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♪

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Unless I'm just doing those kind of simple


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♪

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There's, you know, there's different ways
of playing the melodies there, but

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♪

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there's not that many as there are for
the other chords.

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There we have the chord-scale relationships
between the C major scale,

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our Am, Em and Dmin chords. Like I've
mentioned before, really what I want you

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to do, is just experiment a little bit.
See the way that the scale

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fits with the chord shapes.
That's really important to be

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able to understand this idea; there's a lot of,
lot of ground that this covers.

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When you understand the relationship
between the chords and the scales and


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the way you can put it together, you get
all sorts of interesting chords, you get

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the ability to play melody, there's all
sorts of things that this kinda leads to.

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We're gonna be exploring some of that.
But this is one of those lessons that

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for the future of your guitar playing is
gonna really make a difference. Even if

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it doesn't seem to be right now. This is a
biggin. There's a lot of interesting stuff

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going on here, so do spend a bit of time
with it and I'm sure you'll gonna enjoy

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the next lesson, where we're
going to learn how to put all of these

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major and minor chord scale relationships
along with our folk fingerstyle patterns,

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to play the Australien classic song:
Waltzing Matilda.

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And I'll see you for that very soon.
Take care of yourselves, bye-bye!