C Minor Piano Scales & Arpeggios

🎹 Find the complete print & audio materials for Unit 12 at: https://www.hoffmanacademy.com/store/... Download our free guide to learn all piano scales: https://www.hoffmanacademy.com/blog/p... Learn more about the C minor piano scale, including chords and songs in this key, at the Hoffman Academy website: https://www.hoffmanacademy.com/blog/p... In this lesson, we're going to learn how to play a two-octave C minor piano scale and an arpeggio in C minor. If you’ve been taking our online piano lessons, you know that C major is our major scale with zero sharps and flats. Can you tell me what minor key also has zero sharps and flats? If you said A minor, you're correct. To find the relative minor, it's always just a skip of a third below. So A natural minor also has zero sharps and flats just like C major. Now today, we're going to be going up even further on the ladder of fourths. We can use the minor scales just like the major scales to go up fourths and add flats. So if A minor has zero sharps and flats, we can go up a fourth to D. D minor has one flat. Now if we go up another fourth from D, which note would we be on? So G minor should have two flats. Remember, every time we go up a fourth we add a flat. So we have a B-flat and an E-flat now in G natural minor. What if we want to go up another fourth? Where would that bring us? What's a fourth above G? If you said C, you're correct, and I'm going to come down to this C, and based on our law of the ladder of fourths how many flats should we now have in C minor? If you said three, you're correct. We're now up to three flats. Let's take a look at our ladder of fourths. You can see if we're looking on the minor side we went up a fourth from A to D, to G to C, and now that we're in the C minor scale, we have three flats: B-flat, E-flat, and A-flat. ✨Watch this lesson & hundreds more in order & ad-free at https://www.HoffmanAcademy.com/lessons! ✨ 🎵 Ad-Free Online Piano Lessons for Kids & Beginners with Hoffman Academy! 🎵 Watch our 350+ FREE piano lessons at https://www.HoffmanAcademy.com - no ads, just music! Designed for kids but enjoyed by students of all ages, our award-winning method has helped thousands of students play real music from day one. Mr. Hoffman's warm, engaging approach makes learning piano fun and natural, teaching through experience before explanation. Students develop a strong musical foundation through our unique ear-first approach, while exploring improvisation, composition, and music theory from the earliest lessons. 🌐 On our website, students will find: -Step-by-step curriculum that builds confidence -Popular songs to love and play -Clear, engaging instruction from Mr. Hoffman -Learn at any pace, anytime, anywhere ⭐ Ready to accelerate progress? Premium members get: -Extensive sheet music library with hundreds of songs -Interactive music theory games that make learning fun -Guided practice sessions for every lesson -Professional play-along tracks to develop rhythm, ear training, and ensemble skills Join thousands of music makers today! 🎹 Create a FREE account to track progress and access all lessons: https://www.hoffmanacademy.com ⭐ Learn about PREMIUM membership benefits: https://www.hoffmanacademy.com/premium/ 👋 Connect with us and join our community of musicians: Instagram:   / hoffmanacademy   Facebook:   / hoffmanacademy   Pinterest:   / hoffmanmusic   TikTok:   / hoffmanacademy   📌 Visit our BLOG for more piano resources and inspiration: https://www.hoffmanacademy.com/blog/ 📣 SUBSCRIBE on YouTube to never miss new content: https://www.youtube.com/hoffmanacadem... "What I have liked the most about my experience with Hoffman Academy is that I am actually learning skills and then putting them into practice. I am not just taught about music theory and techniques but left without a use for them. At the same time, I am also not just taught how to play songs with no theory or explanation. Instead, I learn theory, techniques, songs, and more together in a way that combines everything and allows me to put the theory into practice." Adult Learner