The melodic minor scale is a minor scale with both the sixth and seventh notes raised by half a step, but only when ascending. A descending melodic minor scale is identical to a natural minor scale.

The Melodic Minor scale was used by Paul McCartney the basis for Yesterday and in jazz standard Autumn Leaves to create a sense of airiness. It works a treat when soloing over minor chords, too ...

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 ...

Check out the diagrams below to see a range of essential scales mapped out on a keyboard, along with interval info so that you can transpose each scale to the key of your choosing. 1. Major (aka ...

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.

In this paper, it is shown that the pitch-class sets that provide the most consonant interval-class inventories are the major diatonic scale, the harmonic and melodic minor scales, and equally ...