Help with A minor? guitar theory?

Question

when i play A minor on my guitar i play the 3 notes A C E that would be the 1 3 5 notes for that chord but doesnt music theory state that to have a minor chord you need it to be 1 b3 5 ???

whats going on here? im lost this doesnt make sense to me i set up my formula like this

A C E G B D F
1 3 5 7 9 11 13


it seems like when i play a A minor chord music theory is saying that i am playing a A Major chord

please help i must be missing somthing thx

opps i was just over thinking it i understand it now whew

Answer 1

dude get your self a nice book.when you play A minor chord theory is saying that you play A minor.A minor scale goes like A B C D E F G it's so simple if you no the alphabet.A major goes like A B C# D E F# G.So minor and major in A are not alike.Although C major is like A minor because they use the same notes i diferent order.so either your song is in C major OR A minor you use the same notes.if you want to now more send me an email.

Answer 2

The answers above are as good as any but I'll add my explanation too. When you ask if a key can be "C7, C7M, CSus" the answer is no, because those are the name of chords. There's 12 notes, so there can only be 12 keys. However, there are different kinds of tonalities and modalities (don't worry about the big words), meaning they're technically, going to be many more than 12 keys, but they can only start with one of the 12 notes. Seems like you have the right idea about relative minors. They are both the same and different scale. Imagine your name starting on a different letter nicholas icholasn The name (scale) "icholasn" would be relative to your name, has the same letters (notes), but starts on a different letter and therefore would have a different pronunciation (sound) and be considered a different name. If that makes any sense, think of a scale as a name. CDEFGAB (The Major Scale) DEFGABC EFGABCD FFABCDE GABCDEF ABCDEFG (The relative minor scale) BCDEFGA The last six are all related to the first one. They are simply rotations, called "modes" in musical terminology. Since they have different patterns though, they will yield different sounds and are considered different scales. I wouldnt worry too much about harmonic minor right now. It's a scale with an altered note which is used to pull towards a different tonic. As for learning all the notes on the fretboard, I would make flashcards of frets 1-12 on all six strings. On the front you would have the string and fret number and on the back the note. eg. "D6-Ab/G#". You can also practice naming the letters on each fret starting on the lowest pitch up "EADGBE-FBbGEbAbCF" and so forth and make 12 flashcards for those, if you want to. Another method is naming the fret number for a note on each string, for example "C" would be "8-3-10-5-1-8".

Answer 3

A C E is an A minor triad. C is the b3 of that chord.
A major: A B C# D E F# G# A ---C# is the major third
A natural minor: A B C D E F G A ---C is the minor third
You are right! Don't doubt yourself!

Answer 4

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Answer 5

because b and c is just 1/2 step away so c is considered a half step from b. no b#.

a-a#-b-c-c#-d-d#-e-f-f#-g-g#-a



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Answer 6

the 3rd would be a C#...the b3 would be C.