There are two big clues that we can use to hear the difference between major and minor scales. The most obvious difference is found in the upper part of the scale, between notes five and eight. In ...

The melodic minor scale is a minor scale with both the sixth and seventh notes raised by half a step, but only when ascending. In western music, modal music dates from before the use of scales and ...

Harmonic minors use the relative major key signature and raise the seventh note of the scale. For example, in A harmonic minor there are no sharps or flats other than the raised seventh of G#.

Musicians simply must know their scales and he came up with a papercraft slide rule for major and minor scales. The system is very easy to use. He’s uploaded PDF files that let you print out the ...

There are a number of different minor scales available, suiting different situations and chord progressions. Two of the most common used by guitarists are the minor pentatonic (1-b3-4-5-b7 ...