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Stijl Council
Jun 16, 2003

Hip to be Squares

Eli Cash posted:

I have a piece A minor. All my book says about minor keys is that you move the middle finger down a key on a major chord. What else is affected by a minor key, and how does it relate to A major?

A minor has no accidentals in the key signature; A Major has three sharps (F, C, and G). Playing a piece in a minor will feel a lot like playing a piece in C Major, except that you might see more G sharps (one particular chord that's used a lot in minor pieces is a major chord on the fifth note of the scale, which in this case is E).

A minor is called the relative minor of C Major because it shares the same key signature. It's called the parallel minor of A Major because they share the same starting note. If you play the whole scale the a minor scale will sound sort of "sad."

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