If you got that, sing the scale each time up a half step ascending and descending or sing it ascending and then up a half step descending, up a half step ascending, up a half step descending. Try to sing the natural minor scale ascending and descending. Make up small melodic phrases in your head and try to translate them to the guitar. – Create melody with the natural minor scale: play with the notes, experiment with timing and rhythm, use dynamics, pauses, extend or shorten the duration/length of some of the notes, use techniques like hammer-ons, pulls offs, slides, etc. all the way up the 12th fret and the all way back again. – Play the natural minor scale ascending starting on the 1st fret and then play it descending starting on the 2nd fret, ascending on the 3rd fret, descending on the 4th fret, etc. – Practice both scales in all keys starting on the 1st fret, each time moving up a half step all the way up to the 12th fret and then back again. However, there are in fact 3 minor scales which you will come across and can use: Natural Minor Scale Harmonic Minor Scale Melodic Minor Scale When you play all the notes in a minor key signature, you are playing the minor scale. – Practice both scales ascending and descending using the alternate picking technique. The minor scale is the scale which sounds negative - it is used by composers to depict sad, melancholic or even angry/dramatic moods. Listen to guitar solos using the natural minor scale to capture the mood and draw some inspiration.Įxamples: Nothing else matters by Metallica, Black magic woman and Maria maria by Santana.