E minor - Scales, triads & chords
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Are you into rock? Then you should master E minor. Because: E minor sounds powerful. Full. And simply rocking. But even if you just want to venture into the introduction to keys, E minor is a must.
After you have worked through this article, you will master the E minor scale and the E minor chords. Let’s jump right in.
E minor scale
Sheet music
Here are the notes for E minor. They serve as an overview for you – if you can read music.
If you know me better, then you know that I am an advocate of intuitive music making. So playing the piano without sheet music. And yes, after you have worked through this article, you will no longer need sheet music.
Piano keyboard with fingering
The E minor scale requires one black key: F sharp.
Only one black key. A dream. And it gets even better. If you want to play the E minor scale, you need the standard fingering. Which is:
1 – 2 – 3 – 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5
You start on the root note E.
The only challenge with this fingering is the change from 3 to 1. At this point, slide your thumb under your hand and onto the A. Then just keep playing until you run out of fingers.
Feel free to play the scale up and down a few times. This will give you the necessary practice.
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E minor triad (chord)
Below you will find the E minor triad as notes and as a piano keyboard in different positions: root position, 1st inversion and 2nd inversion of the triad.
Home position
The E minor basic chord consists of the notes E – G – B. The chord is played with the first, third and fifth fingers.
1. reversal
The first inversion consists of the notes G – B – E. We play them with 1 – 2 – 5
2. reversal
We play the second inversion of the E minor chord again with the first, third and fifth fingers.
Parallel major key
The parallel minor key of E minor is G major.
How to play every song on the piano
Do you want to play your favorite songs on the piano just like that? Without sheet music, 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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