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Hi, how'ya doing, Justin here!

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Welcome to[br]Minor Chord Scale Relations!

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

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

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

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the major chords in the C Major scale,[br]

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

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

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G, F, E, D, C, B, A, G, F, E, D,[br]C, B, A, G, F and E.

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♪

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

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

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

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

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and then back to normal for our E note.

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♪

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

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

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

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♪

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

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

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

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

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

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♪

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Just explore it. Just like I'm doing now:[br]

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♪

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

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

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

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

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

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♪

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

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little finger, 1st finger, open,[br]little finger, 1st finger, open,

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

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

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♪

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

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just like the A minor:

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♪

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

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

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

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

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because it's only using the thinnest[br]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...[br]Has to require some kind of pretty weird

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

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

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

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the note D, 1st finger on the C,[br]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[br]because there's no...

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♪

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Unless I'm just doing those kind of simple[br]

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♪

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

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♪

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

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

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

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

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

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

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When you understand the relationship[br]between the chords and the scales and[br]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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to play the Australien classic song:[br]Waltzing Matilda.

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