What Is The Relative Minor? Guitar Theory Lesson

What Is The Relative Minor? Guitar Theory Lesson

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Today we look at a new concept, which has the potential to confuse, so we will take it slowly! The idea behind learning the relative minor is very practical. Very often we spend time learning one or two shapes on the guitar, or even the theory behind the major scale. Learning how to find the relative minor means you can take the exact same scale but start in a different place to create a new scale. This is potentially a more advanced idea and it will come into full use when we cover modal scales, but is great to get a handle on now. The theory is simple: Take your major scale, start from the 6th degree and you have your relative minor scale.

As you can see, the best thing about this is that all the chords stay the same as well! Suddenly, we have worked out the C major key and A minor key, without doing any extra work at all! Every single major key has a relative minor, so this theory can be applied to any of the keys.

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[therealbullpeters]

that was concise, understandable and i learned something. Thank you!

[DebbieMarieClassics]

I love your videos. I can actually understand it! Thank you.

[jessiegaray]

What is the benefit of knowing relative minor?

[itsallaroundyou]

It's funny cause you only really need to know this for the purpose of explaining it to someone. Or perhaps for jazz or classical music maybe. But for every day run of the mill song writing you'll find it without ever knowing. After I learned it I realized in the hundreds of songs I've written over the years I was always doing it. It I was writing a song with a 3 chord progression it could be all major or minor and all good. When writting 4 or more chords I'd always find myself cycling through all the chords till I found one that fit because it sounded right, not cause I knew jack about theory. Looking back it was always this formula.
Sometimes I wish I had delved into the technical side earlier cause of be a much more advanced musician by now but at the same time im a very intuitive musician and that is mostly because I learned everything as if I was inventing it, because for me I was.

[Hassan_Omer]

But why isn't the dorian or phrygian mode not considered to be the relative minor ? they start of with a different note but play the same chords and notes as well.