Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmour and Slash are just three of the countless fans of this staple minor mode. Here, Stuart Ryan takes you through the structure of the scale, plus a handful of chords, riffs an ...

The chromaticism arrives on beat 2 of bar 12, as I descend through A, G#, G and F#, followed by a long descending line that ...

Likewise, for a G7 altered chord, some say G altered scale (or G Superlocrian) whereas others say Ab melodic minor (ie over a dom7, use melodic minor up a semitone). I appreciate both are 'right' but ...

In this guide we will look at a range of key musical concepts relating to melody and harmony, including: relative major relative minor harmonic minor scales melodic minor scales modes and modal ...

When using the melodic minor in modern music, the tendency is to throw the rulebook out of the window and just use the ascending form in both directions. It’s an interesting-sounding scale with a ...

Start at A on a piano and play up, again staying on the white notes, and you have a basic melodic minor scale. A harmonic minor scale changes some of the upper notes.

Scales, which Bailey refers to as “the building blocks of music”, come in many different forms – most commonly in the major, melodic minor or harmonic minor. Bill describes the melodic minor as the ...

In this guide we will look at a range of key musical concepts relating to melody and harmony, including: relative major relative minor harmonic minor scales melodic minor scales modes and modal ...