Which Minor

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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.

How many songs use this that you can share? One or two of them in the comments with us. And 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 and share them with someone who belongs in a Beat Kitchen class.