If the mention of scales conjures frightening flashbacks of instrumental lessons undertaken in your youth, you won’t be alone ...

Harmonic minor ... of the scale make different kinds of chords. These chromatic alterations have been the basis of a whole range of musical styles. For example, the triads in C major are as ...

modulating to the relative major key of E♭ major for the chorus and then modulating back to C minor. The melodic minor scale is a minor scale with both the sixth and seventh notes raised by half ...