Show Notes
How to learn and memorize your natural minor scales using the sixth mode of the major scale (the aeolian mode). This is assuming you have all 12 major scales memorized first.
In this episode you will learn;
what a natural minor scale is
the sixth mode of the major scale or aeolian mode.
how to think of a natural minor scale
how to not memorize scales using only fingering patterns
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