Build the foundation of your piano or keyboard playing with these essential scales - plus video lessons When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Here’s how it works. Once you know how to construct major and minor scales on the piano, you can take the notes within them and start stacking them up together to play chords. While it’s possible to ...

In music theory we learn that what makes a minor scale different from a major scale is that the minor scale contains a flat 3rd and, depending on the type, sometimes a flat 6th and/or a flat 7th.