Find Minor Scale: The Sound of Serious

The short answer: Find Minor Scale drills the natural minor scale (formula 1 2 ♭3 4 5 ♭6 ♭7) — the darker counterpart to major and the tonal home of most rock, metal, and a great deal of everything else. You get a key and a zone; find the scale, fast.

What the game is

A key, a highlighted area, and you find the seven natural-minor notes in it. Drilled position by position, minor becomes a shape you reach for rather than a formula you recite.

What it teaches

• The natural minor pattern in each position across the neck.
• The ♭3, ♭6 and ♭7 that give minor its weight.
• Its identity as the relative minor of a major scale.

Why it's cool

Minor is half of all tonal music — the serious, darker half — and it shares every note with a major scale a minor-third up. Learn that relationship and you get two scales for the price of one.

Where to start

Read the Minor Scale course and the minor scale theory course. Relative major and minor explains the shared notes.