This is the sound of the A Natural Minor Scale.
and here is a melody that uses the A Natural Minor
Scale.  
There are three ways to learn the Natural
Minor Scales.
The first way is to use a whole step/half step sequence.The second way is to use a relative major scale.   
and the third way is to use a parallel major scale.
 The Natural Minor Scale has the following
sequence:WHWWHWW. 
So just like major, you can start on any pitch on our instrument and
follow this special pattern of WHWWHWW and
you'll get a natural minor scale. Thinking
this way is a little clunky and not super
practical when we are playing our instruments,
so I want to show you two other ideas that
I think are a bit more practical. They use the relative major and parallel major scales.
So you might have noticed that A natural minor
and C major use the exact same pitches and have 
the same key signature of no sharps and no
flats. We would say that
C Major is the relative major of A Natural
Minor. So Relative Major means that they have
the same pitches but are organized slightly
differently. The difference is that A natural
minor has a tonic of A and C major has a tonic
of C. SO remember that the tonic is the pitch
that our ears recognize as home base. This gives the
two scales a very different sound even if
they use the exact same pitches. Let's listen
to a melody that uses A natural minor.
 and here is a melody that uses C major.  So you can hear how even though
they have the same pitches they each have their own unique sound.
Here is how to use the Relative Major scale to learn
a Natural Minor Scale.
First count up three half steps (what we call a minor third) from the tonic of the minor scale you want
and then two play in that major key, but start on the
tonic of the minor scale.
So for example: If I wanted to learn D natural
minor,(1) I’d count up three half steps
from D so Eb, then E natural, and then I'd
land on F. So I'm thinking F major. And then (2) I’d start on D, because that's the tonic, and
play in the key of F major, that's just one
flat, and then I'd play all the way up to
the next D.  This works
because F major is the relative major of D
Natural Minor. This trick works for all natural
minor scales.
The third way to learn  a Natural Minor
Scale is to use the Parallel Major Scale.
C major is the Parallel Major Scale to C minor.
F Major is the Parallel Major to F minor.
G Major is the Parallel Major to G minor. And you kind of get the idea here. Parallel scales have the
same tonic. If you take the parallel major
scale and then lower the 3, 6 and 7 scale degrees,
you get the natural minor scale. So for example:
let's say you want to figure out G natural
minor. Take G major and lower the 3,6 and
7 scales degrees each by a half step. that
means the B turns into Bb, the E natural is now Eb and
F# is now F natural. And voila! G natural minor
scale.
So to wrap up, there are 3 ways to learn natural
minor scales:
1. Whole step/half step sequence that is unique
to the natural minor scale
2. use the Relative Major
3. use the  Parallel Major
Relative majors have the same pitches and
parallel majors have the same tonic. If I were you, I probably would
go back and review this video a couple times just to make sure you get all that information.
In our next video, we're going to talk about the harmonic minor and the melodic minor. 
