One of my latest activities on the piano is practicing chords that are diatonic to the natural minor scale, in all 12 keys. I need work on all the keys but these are the ones I'm weakest at as of today:
- C# minor
- Eb minor
- Gb minor
- G# minor
- Bb minor
- B minor
I thought at first I would think of the natural minor diatonic chords in the manner described in
this article. For example in the key of C# minor, the i chord would be C# min, the ii chord would be D# min7b5, the III chord would be E Maj, etc. Then I learned there is another way to think of the natural minor diatonic chords, and that would be to treat the first chord as the chord vi of the relative major scale. So, C# min would be the vi chord, D# min7b5 would be the vii chord, E Maj would be the I chord, etc. Thus, if I practice the diatonic chords for E Major, it would be the same as practicing the chords as C# min. Therefore, to work on the diatonic chords for the above natural minor keys, I should practice the diatonic chords of the followng corresponding relative major keys.
- E Major
- Gb Major
- A Major
- B Major
- Db Major
- D Major
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