- Altered Minor Scales: Introduction
- Minor Scale Chord Progression
- Building a Natural Minor Melody
- Natural Minor Play Along
- Harmonic Minor Scale
- Building a Harmonic Minor Melody
- Harmonic Minor Play Along
- Melodic Minor Scale
- Building a Melodic Minor Melody
- Melodic Minor Play Along
- Using Multiple Variations
- Variations Play Along
- Altered Minor Scales: Conclusion
Melodic Minor Scale
In this lesson we'll look at altering the natural minor scale in order to create a different sound, a new flavor that's called melodic minor. This time we change 2 notes. We change the 7th scale degree from a minor 7th to a major 7th and we also change the minor 6th degree to a major 6th degree. This also has wide ranging consequences.
Historically, this was done in order to achieve a more melodic rising scale, hence the name "melodic minor". As a result the IV and the V chords both have major 3rd. Again, changing these notes also affects any other chord that those notes are use on. As well as each mode of the scale.
These are the harmonies that result from the melodic minor scale.
And these are the modes of the melodic minor scale.
Melodic minor
Phrygian with major 6th
Lydian Augmented (with #5th)
Lydian Dominant
Mixolydian wuth minor 6th
Locrian with natural 2nd
Super Locrian or Altered Jazz Scale
Instructor
Christopher Schlegel
