Lesson 4
Minor scales

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Parallel major and minor keys

Major and minor keys with the same tonic but with different key signatures are called parallel keys.  Following are three pairs of parallel keys:

Compositions sometimes switch back and forth between parallel major and minor but keep the same tonic. This is changing modes (not transposition, which would involve the change of tonic).

Listen to the following melody first in g minor (key signature of 2 flats), and then its parallel major, G (key signature of 1 sharp).

 

       
 

g minor:

     
     

 

       
 

G major:

     
     

 

Relative keys share the same key signature , but have different tonics.
Parallel keys share the same tonic, but have different key signatures.

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