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 ...

Knowing which scale or mode fits where is, of course, very important. As you suggest in your letter, the formula for playing over a dominant seventh chord resolving to a tonic is to play the ...

The C Melodic minor scale . Composing activity . Back to top. Modes and modal music. In western music, modal music dates from before the use of scales and keys. Modes are similar to tonal scales.

The melodic minor scale can be built using similar methods, but the main thing that sets it apart from its two relatives is that, traditionally, it uses one pattern when it’s ascending (going up the ...

The other common scale is the minor scale. It’s a bit darker in mood. In fact if a piece of music has a minor scale as its foundation, it will usually end up sounding sad or dramatic (or both).

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 ...