Piano basics: the black notes - what are they for and how do you use them? The main reason the melodic minor scale came about was as a way to reduce the size of the interval between the 6th and 7th ...

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 ...

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.

The third variation, the melodic minor scale, we'll cover at a later date. There are two main methods for forming minor scales: the ‘definitive’ method and the ‘derivative’ method.