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Natural Minor Scales and Arpeggios

The document provides instructions for practicing natural minor scales and arpeggios. It includes lists of natural minor scales and their corresponding triads. The practice sequence involves playing full-range scales in a selected key, then moving through an additive triad exercise playing both bottom-up and top-down. Full instructions are given for the additive triad exercise, along with guidance on finding the appropriate key signature for any natural minor scale based on its relationship to the parallel or relative major scale.

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Natural Minor Scales and Arpeggios

The document provides instructions for practicing natural minor scales and arpeggios. It includes lists of natural minor scales and their corresponding triads. The practice sequence involves playing full-range scales in a selected key, then moving through an additive triad exercise playing both bottom-up and top-down. Full instructions are given for the additive triad exercise, along with guidance on finding the appropriate key signature for any natural minor scale based on its relationship to the parallel or relative major scale.

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Dr.MarkWatkins,BYUIdaho Thefollowingscalesareincludedforreferenceonly.Theyarenotintendedaspartoftheexercise routine.Thesameappliestothearpeggios.WorkbeginswiththeFivenotePatterns.

Scales AMinor DMinor EMinor

NaturalMinorScalesandArpeggios

GMinor

BMinor

CMinor

FsharpMinor

FMinor

CsharpMinor

BflatMinor

GsharpMinor

EflatMinor

DsharpMinor

AflatMinor

AsharpMinor

Triads AMinor

DMinor

EMinor

GMinor

BMinor

CMinor

FsharpMinor

FMinor

CsharpMinor

BflatMinor

GsharpMinor

EflatMinor

DsharpMinor

AflatMinor

AsharpMinor

PracticeSequence Dothefollowinginaselectedkeythenmovetonextkey. 1. Fullrangescale 2. Additivetriadexercisebottomup 3. Additivetriadexercisetopdown The5noteand9noteexercisesneednotbeappliedtonaturalminorscales;theyarethesameas thosecompletedwiththemajorscalestudies. FullrangeScales Useadifferentarticulationeachtimeascaleispracticed.Eventually,throughworkonnumerous keys,allthepatternsbelowshouldbemastered.

Fullrangescalesarenotwritteninallkeysfornaturalminor.Onemayrefertothefullrange scalesfromthemajorkeystudies.Itisintendedthatstudentsinternalizetheconcept.Simply applytheminorkeysignaturetothemajorscales. Tofindtheappropriatekeysignature: 1. Frommajordescendaminor3rdtodeterminetherelativeminorroot(1stnoteofthescale). 2. Fromtherootoftheintendedminorscaleascendaminor3rdtodeterminetheappropriate keysignature. 3. Parallelmajorandminorchangekeysbuthavethesametonic(1stnoteofthescale). Forexample: CMajor

CNaturalMinor(parallel:samerootbutdifferentkeysignature)

ANaturalMinor(relative,differentrootbutsamekeysignature)

AdditiveTriadExercise Studentmustinternalize(memorize)scales,arpeggios,andotherpatterns.Onlyanexampleofthe AdditiveTriadExerciseisgivenbelow.Itisexpectedthattheconceptbeappliedtotwelvekeys. Startonthelowesttriadnotepossible. Addonenoteperrepetitionasbelow. Convertto8thnotesifnecessary. Useametronome. Example:EflatMinor

Startonthehighesttriadnotepossiblewithinthenormalrangeofthesaxophone.Thisexercise canbeappliedtodevelopingthealtissimoregister. Addonenoteperrepetitionasbelow.

Thisexercisecanalsobedonewithtriplets.

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