D minor - Scales, triads & chords
On this page you will find everything about D minor: Explanatory videos and pictures of scale fingering, triad, chord, inversions, notes and keyboard illustrations.
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You want to venture into the key of D minor, right? That’s why you’re here. Great. I can definitely help you. Even if you’re a complete beginner. Because: In this article, I’ll show you which notes D minor has. How to play the D minor scale without your fingers giving out. And I’ll show you what the D minor root chord and its two inversions look like.
The good news first: D minor has only one accidental. Which means for you: When you play D minor, you only need one black key.
Sounds relaxing, doesn’t it? It is. So, let’s make music with full motivation and serenity.
D minor scale
As already mentioned, the D minor scale has only one black key. It is the b. Overall, the D minor scale is composed of the following notes:
D – E – F – G – A – B – C – D
Sheet music
You already know the notes of the D minor scale. Here I will show you the corresponding notes.
If you can’t read music, that’s not a problem at all. You don’t need them to master D minor. If you can read music, use this note overview.
But only to give you an overview of D minor. Later you won’t need the notes anymore. And play D minor purely intuitively.
By the way: I love intuitive piano playing. It makes you a free piano player and an independent pianist. You can find out more about how to learn this type of piano playing at the end of this article.
Piano keyboard with fingering
Ready for the D minor scale? Yes!
We start on the root note D with the thumb. Then we play the remaining notes of the D minor scale upwards. The fingering for this is:
1 – 2 – 3 – 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5
If you have already practiced a few scales with me, you will surely notice something. Exactly, it is the standard fingering, as you know it from many other keys – such as C major.
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D minor triad (chord)
Below you will find the D minor triad as notes and as a piano keyboard in different positions: root position, 1st inversion and 2nd inversion of the triad.
Home position
We play the root position of the D minor chord with 1 – 3 – 5. The notes for this are
D – F – A
1. reversal
2. reversal
Parallel major key
The parallel major key of D minor is F major.
How to play every song on the piano
Do you want to learn your favorite songs on the piano just like that? Without notes, without tutorials and without learning apps? In your own personal version?
Or do you simply want to spontaneously improvise your musical ideas on the piano? For yourself alone or in front of an audience?
Then you might be interested in this:
Play Piano by Intuition
Because intuitive piano playing does without sheet music and classical theory, you learn it as quickly as you learned to speak as a child.
While for others the piano remains a “typewriter for notes”, you understand its tones and which combinations always sound right. You can express yourself through the piano – like a small child who has just learned to speak.
In future, you will be able to rely on your intuition in any situation: You will become immune to wrong notes because you will see the right keys in your mind’s eye even before you press them.
In my free workshop I will show you how it works.
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