Poll: What do you think is The Saddest Minor Musical Scale?

**TRUC** · 17th February 2021, 1:14 AM

(16th February 2021, 3:42 PM)Fam93 Wrote: Interesting point. I'll agree with you and say that there are other scales out there, close to the natural minor scale such as diminished, harmonic and atonal. I'm surprised you said G Major. Normally I would expect songs in a major scale to be more jovial instead of melancholy. I guess it depends on the song.

Don't forget that if you only consider the 7 basic triads of these scales, you still have 3 major chords, 3 minor chords and 1 diminished chord, no matter if you're in the major realm, or its relative minor scale.

As you mentionned in your first post, chord progressions do matter a lot. Even if you're in, let's say, C Major, you can still use pretty sad/depressing progressions like I-ii-iii-vi.

Frequencies are also a weird thing. Play a D Minor scale starting on D3, then play it from D1 or D6 on a piano. Not exactly the same experience Tongue

All in all though I'm not saying natural minor isn't a sad scale, I'm simply giving more context ^^

Poll: What do you think is The Saddest Minor Musical Scale? You do not have permission to vote in this poll.
A/A#/Ab Minor Key Scale	33.33%	1	33.33%
B/Bb Minor Key Scale	0%	0	0%
C/C# Minor Key Scale	0%	0	0%
D/D#/Db Minor Key Scale	33.33%	1	33.33%
E/Eb Minor Key Scale	0%	0	0%
F/F# Minor Key Scale	0%	0	0%
G/G#/Gb Minor Key Scale	0%	0	0%
I don't understand Music Theory at all	33.33%	1	33.33%
Total		3 vote(s)	100%