The Truth About Minor Scales on Guitar

🎸 Go deeper with minor — my course Minor Beyond Pentatonic takes a melodic approach, helping you build a phrase vocabulary for the different colors of minor: https://www.guitartactics.net/beyond-... Is there really one "minor scale"? In this lesson for intermediate players, I bring five pieces of evidence that minor isn't a single scale at all. Instead, it's a tonality you can color many different ways. We hit the minor pentachord, leading tone vs flat seven, the argument from harmony, and one simple rule (1, ♭3, 5, and anything else goes) that opens up the fretboard. Chapters 00:00 - There's no one true minor scale (and who this is for) 00:37 - Reason 1: major is the foundation, minor is the variation 02:02 - Reason 2: you don't need a scale to sound minor 03:10 - Reason 3: the 7th is the lever (leading tone vs flat seven) 04:19 - Reason 4: the argument from harmony 05:10 - Reason 5: one, flat three, five, and anything goes 05:43 - Hearing the colors: leading tone, blues, Dorian, natural minor 06:53 - What minor really is 07:18 - Go deeper: Minor Beyond Pentatonic #guitar #musictheory #minorscale #guitarlesson #modes