Kissing Cousins: Major & Minor Relative Scales in Music
Some cousins don’t get along with each other, but others are “kissing cousins”. And that’s exactly what the C major scale and the A minor scale are – kissing cousins.
What makes them like that? They are related because they share the very same notes. If you play the C scale from A to A, what you have is the A natural minor scale. (There are other varieties of minor scales, such as harmonic and melodic, but that’s not our subject here.)
Please watch this 14-minute video and learn which scales are related to each other and why:
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