Knowing the relative minor in beneficial in the sense that the relative minor contains all the same notes as its major counter-part but is completely different in feel in its intervallic construction and feel. So having this knowledge would let you differentiate between the major and relative minor even though they have the same notes! Hope this helps :)
It's funny cause you only really need to know this for the purpose of explaining it to someone. Or perhaps for jazz or classical music maybe. But for every day run of the mill song writing you'll find it without ever knowing. After I learned it I realized in the hundreds of songs I've written over the years I was always doing it. It I was writing a song with a 3 chord progression it could be all major or minor and all good. When writting 4 or more chords I'd always find myself cycling through all the chords till I found one that fit because it sounded right, not cause I knew jack about theory. Looking back it was always this formula. Sometimes I wish I had delved into the technical side earlier cause of be a much more advanced musician by now but at the same time im a very intuitive musician and that is mostly because I learned everything as if I was inventing it, because for me I was.
But why isn't the dorian or phrygian mode not considered to be the relative minor ? they start of with a different note but play the same chords and notes as well.
That is because they modes within a tonality, whereas the relative minor is thought of as a brand new key itself that just so happens to have the same notes and intervals as the aeolian mode of the Major scale. But it is this link that makes it a minor relative to the major key. To summarise the key of E minor is a whole different key to G major but it shares the same notes and that is why it is the relative minor. Hope this helps :)
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What is the benefit of knowing relative minor?
Knowing the relative minor in beneficial in the sense that the relative minor contains all the same notes as its major counter-part but is completely different in feel in its intervallic construction and feel. So having this knowledge would let you differentiate between the major and relative minor even though they have the same notes! Hope this helps :)
It's funny cause you only really need to know this for the purpose of explaining it to someone. Or perhaps for jazz or classical music maybe. But for every day run of the mill song writing you'll find it without ever knowing. After I learned it I realized in the hundreds of songs I've written over the years I was always doing it. It I was writing a song with a 3 chord progression it could be all major or minor and all good. When writting 4 or more chords I'd always find myself cycling through all the chords till I found one that fit because it sounded right, not cause I knew jack about theory. Looking back it was always this formula.
Sometimes I wish I had delved into the technical side earlier cause of be a much more advanced musician by now but at the same time im a very intuitive musician and that is mostly because I learned everything as if I was inventing it, because for me I was.
But why isn't the dorian or phrygian mode not considered to be the relative minor ? they start of with a different note but play the same chords and notes as well.
That is because they modes within a tonality, whereas the relative minor is thought of as a brand new key itself that just so happens to have the same notes and intervals as the aeolian mode of the Major scale. But it is this link that makes it a minor relative to the major key. To summarise the key of E minor is a whole different key to G major but it shares the same notes and that is why it is the relative minor. Hope this helps :)
@@yga Thank you very much for the explaination. :)