This gives you a scale called A harmonic minor. In A natural minor, you make the leading tone by raising G to G-sharp. Western Europeans decided that minor keys would feel more legitimate if they had a leading tone, a note that’s a half-step below the tonic. If you emphasize the third too much, everything will start sounding like the relative major. However, for the album version, Björk used a minimalist remix by Howie B that sounds more like it’s in D-flat major.Īs you play with the natural minor scale, you may notice that its minor-ness is weak. Here’s Béla Bartók repeating the same melody in D minor and then F major:ījörk uses the relative major/relative minor idea for her two released versions of “ All is Full of Love.” She wrote the tune in B-flat minor, and that’s the version that was released as a single. Here’s “Mary Had a Little Lamb”, first in its customary major, and then in the relative minor. It’s especially fun to take the same melody and play it over the relative major and minor keys. It sounds musically logical when you move from A minor to C major and back. The key of A minor is the relative minor key to C major, and the key of C major is the relative major key to A minor. Since A natural minor and C major are comprised of the same notes in the same order, you would expect them to feel closely related, and indeed they do. But that also makes for a lot of musical variety.
The minor-key world is more complicated than the major-key world.
I prefer to call it natural minor.īut this is only one of several minor scales in widespread use. It has a few different names: the A diatonic minor scale, the A natural minor scale, or A Aeolian mode. If you play the white keys over a droning or repeated A, you get a very different-sounding scale. The white keys on the piano don’t just have to play C major. I wrote this explainer for my New School students maybe you will find it useful too.
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