In this lesson I'm going to show you how to play the minor scale second position. Let's take a look at how to play it. For the minor scale position to I've chosen a once again, we played position one down here. So I'm going to start on this one right here, this a, and we're going to do position number two, it's going to be within these four frets. It's all contained within those four, which is nice. There's no shifting up or down.
So that's really nice. I could have chosen any key I wanted. If I wanted to do say D minor position. I would start on this D here on the fourth string. I wanted to do if we get down here where f is and I would start the pattern One flat 345 I'm just choosing to do so you can really do it in all 12 keys. And that's how you should practice that.
I'll discuss that in a later video. But now I'm just going to show you physically how to play a minor scale position too. So we're gonna start here on one, it's going to go one, two, flat, 345, flat six, flat, 712, flat, three, four. We're gonna come back for flat 321, flat seven, flat, 654321, flat seven, flat, 654, flat, three, two. It's hard not to want to get down to one since it's right there, but what I tell people is if you're going To practice be practicing that pattern, I like to go down to the lowest note in that pattern. And then I go back up to the root.
I always tell people to start and stop on the one the root of the scale. Just see that you're you're getting you're hearing what that scale sounds like. You're training train your ear to hear where the root is and what the intervals are and how they relate to the root. So let's go through that one more time. We're going to go one, two, flat, 345, flat six, flat, 712, flat, three, four. Coming back for flat three, to one, flat seven, flat 654, flat three, to one, flat seven, flat 654 flat three, two.
Two flat 345, flat six, flat seven, one. So, keep in mind, I have PDFs and charts for all of these in the course. So if you're having trouble seeing what I'm doing or understanding what I'm doing, make sure you look at and download the PDFs, all the charts for the scales, you will I think you will find them very helpful. That is how you play the minor scale position to now that you know how to play the first two positions. Try going between those two patterns in a particular key. Being able to connect all the patterns is going to be really important for mastering your minor scales.
Be patient and practice often