Here's the one for the natural minor scale: Natural Minor Scale FormulaĪnd here's what the C natural minor scale looks like: As before with the major scales, you can figure out any natural minor scale (or any scale for that matter) by knowing it's ‘interval formula'. Minor scales provide a darker, and often more complex sound than major scales.
Also, most of the time when we refer to a ‘minor' scale we're generally referring to the natural minor. By altering these notes we also change the intervals which make up the scale. The natural minor scale can be thought of as a major scale with the 3rd 6th and 7th notes lowered by one half step.
