Natural minor scale

Hey kiddo! Today, I'm gonna teach you about a musical thingy called the natural minor scale. Do you know what a scale is? It's like a special kind of musical ladder that has notes just like rungs.

So, a natural minor scale is a special ladder that starts on a note and then keeps going in a certain pattern until it reaches the same note but a higher or lower version of it. But what's special about this ladder is that it uses a pattern of notes that are different from another ladder called the major scale.

In a major scale ladder, the pattern of notes goes like this: whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half. But in a natural minor scale ladder, the pattern goes like this: whole, half, whole, whole, half, whole, whole.

Now, I know those words might sound a little weird, but let me explain. "Whole" means you skip one note in between the notes you play, while "half" means you only play the very next note.

For example, if you start on the note A in a natural minor scale, you would play the notes A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. But the distance between the notes is different from a major scale ladder. You would play A, B, C, D, E, F#, and G# for a major scale ladder starting on A.

So, in summary, a natural minor scale is like a musical ladder that uses a different pattern of notes than a major scale ladder. It goes whole, half, whole, whole, half, whole, whole.