Piano backing tracks for Minor scales

Below, you will find music created for jamming with Minor scales on the keyboard or piano. The Minor Scales Backing Tracks album includes pop ballads, soul, blues and other styles.

You can use a single scale throughout the entire song. Try to listen and judge how different tones match with the rest of the music and make a distinction between guide tones and passing tones. Guide tones are tones these that match the chord notes and passing tones are these that are included in the scale but not the chord. Also, the 2nd and 6th notes in the scale can sound a bit dissonant against the 3rd and 5th scale notes when these are present in the chords.

If the A Minor key is used as an example, it can be seen that the notes A, C, E, G are each present in three of the main triads which can be harmonized from the scale notes. The 2nd and 6th scale notes, in this case B and F, are each present in two of these chords. Besides from creating dissonance against some of the chords, the B and F notes, are also less present in the chords in general (which is not said that they always are in songs played in the certain key). See Harmonizing Minor scales into chords for more table overviews.

**A Minor Scale** Triads
Tonality	Minor	Major	Minor	Minor	Major	Major
Degrees	i	III	iv	v	VI	VII
Chords	Am	C	Dm	Em	F	G
Notes in chord	A-C-E	C-E-G	D-F-A	E-G-B	F-A-C	G-B-D

And don't forget that it is all about improvisation. You can use notes outside the scale as well, which often can contribute a lot. For instance, you can slide down from a black key (which tone is outside the scale) to a white key which note is included in the scale; try to find which black keys works with this approach.

Click on “Show scale” below the audio element for scale charts adjoining each track.

Backing tracks for Minor scales presented by Pianoscales.org.