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 Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:47 pm
My teacher recently taught me about relative minors. He taught me about writing them from the 6th degree of a scale, then writing them in natural, harmonic, and melodic. I can write them in melodic and harmonic, but I'm not sure about natural. My question is, when I'm writing a key with sharps or flats, the key of G for example, would I take away the sharps and flats or leave them? In other words, when writing the relative minor to the key of G, would I leave the F# in, or write it without it? This goes for any key with sharps or flats, because he also wants me to write the relative minors for the key of D and the key of A in natural, harmonic and melodic as well.
Thanks musicians. Sorry I'm kind of a noob when it comes to theory.
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:45 am
Well I would assume so. As G major and E minor are relatives, they contain the same sharps (F#). G major is written as GABCDEF#, whilst E minor is written as EF#GABCD. After all, the relative minor is actually the Aeolian mode (hence starting from the VI interval), so it is naturally (excuse the pun) created from the same notes, starting from a different degree to the Ionian (home major key).
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