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Fig. 1 · Eb natural minor on the keyboard

piano scale

E♭ natural minor

E♭1F2G♭♭3A♭4B♭5C♭♭6D♭♭7

The major scale started from its sixth degree: same seven notes, a different centre of gravity.

The same sounds spelled from the other side are D♯ natural minor.

on guitaron ukulelethe key signature

Written out

Fig. 2 · Eb natural minor, ascending

Every accidental is written in, rather than left to a key signature, so the letters can be read one at a time.

The step pattern

E♭WFHG♭WA♭WB♭HC♭WD♭WE♭

What is true of it

E♭ natural minor is E♭, F, G♭, A♭, B♭, C♭ and D♭, and back to E♭.

Its steps are W – H – W – W – H – W – W, where W is a whole step and H a half.

It costs 6 alterations to write — near the limit of what a key signature can carry.

On the same tonic, E♭ harmonic minor differs from it by exactly one note.

Chords made only of these notes

D♭majorD♭7dominant seventhE♭mminorE♭m7minor seventhFdimdiminishedFm7♭5half-diminished seventhG♭majorG♭maj7major seventh

Found by testing every chord in the catalogue against these 7 sounds, not chosen.

Other scales on E♭

E♭ harmonic minorminorE♭ melodic minorminorE♭ majormajorE♭ harmonic majormajorE♭ Dorianmode

C minC♯ minD♭ minD minE minF minF♯ minG♭ minall 374