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You can play an A natural minor scale by playing all the white notes from A to A on your piano keyboard. The fingering is just the same as the C major scale, and indeed they’re all the same notes, but ...
If the mention of scales conjures frightening flashbacks of instrumental lessons undertaken in your youth, you won’t be alone ...
For instance, in a C major scale, C=1, D=2, E=3 and so on, until B=7. So, to build a C major triad, we need the notes numbered 1, 3 and 5 from the major scale; in other words, C, E, and G = C major.
Again on the piano, if you play a scale starting on F but staying on white notes, this is what you get. So you’re sharpening the 4th note. Here’s Ed Ayres talking about the lydian mode as used ...