Have you ever stopped to consider just how many songs use some flavor of this chord progression? This descending baseline over a minor chord. I think we’d all agree we’re in A minor here, and on the way down we hit a G. We might be tempted to call that the natural minor, until we get to the E chord at the end.
That little wrinkle means that you can’t necessarily use a single scale in this chord progression that is in literally thousands of songs.
Notice on the way down we’re hitting that G natural. And on the way up we’re hitting that G sharp. A scale is like a living thing. It’s a moving target. Put one or two of these under your fingers.
