2013年2月23日 · A harmonic minor scale differs from a natural minor scale in that the seventh note is raised one semitone. Melodic minor scales raise both the sixth and seventh notes one semitone when ascending, but when descending, the sixth and seventh notes are flattened, producing the natural minor scale.

Yes think about when do you use the melodic minor form. You use when you go step wise up from the sixth and seven tone degrees of a minor scale. Something that would usually happen if you are writing a line of notes that would simulate a melody. Wikipedia mentions the following about the harmonic minor's name.

2019年12月16日 · Harmonic Major is just Harmonic Minor with a raised 3rd, and Aeolian n6 n7 with a raised 3rd is just Ionian again. But it's still possible to see melodic major as a distinct scale because melodic minor can be considered different when ascending and descending. On the way down, you can just use natural minor again.

Simple Example : They key signature for the C (Jazz) Melodic Minor would be one flat, on E, to get Eb instead of E, making the 3rd note (more technically referred to as the 3rd degree in this context) of C Melodic Minor: Eb. To build a mode on the 3rd degree of C Melodic Minor - Eb, use Eb as your root and follow the key signature.

2015年3月22日 · e.g. a-minor: in opposite of the natural mode where the triad of the V is E G B (with the minor 3rd) in harmonic and melodic a-minor the triad of the dominant E contains a major 3rd: E G# B or when it is V7: E G# B D. The harmonic and melodic minor triad of the V have the same function as the V of the major parallel, that is a function the ...

The so called Harmonic Minor and the so called Melodic Minor come from the modal practice of adding leading tones to the Aeolian and Dorian. The Melodic Minor comes from adding a leading tone to the Dorian (ascending) and then resolving to the transposed HypoDorian (basically Aeolian), and Monteverdi was using it.

2018年8月11日 · It's either a major third or a minor third, slightly lower. Let's now look at the melodic minor. Same first 5 notes as the harmonic and natural minor scales, but the notes 6 and 7 are the same as the parallel major. The parallel scales are those with the same letter names - C major/C minor; D major/ D minor, etc. And now, the harmonic minor ...

2016年4月8日 · The way that the Melodic Minor scale is presented to students (Melodic Minor when ascending, Natural Minor when descending, see ex. 1) is merely a teaching tradition. This tradition is an incomplete definition of how the great composers employed the Melodic Minor Scale in their melodies.

6, 7: melodic minor (removes the augmented second interval between b6 and 7 of harmonic minor, so it was 'invented' for melodic reasons) 6, b7: dorian; All chords from these three scales can be and are used in compositions in a minor key. They can (and again are) rather freely mixed by composers in one and the same piece. It is a big ...

2019年6月14日 · When using the harmonic (or melodic) minor scale for a melody, it is often combined with the natural minor, depending on whether the seventh is a leading tone going up to the tonic (in which case you'd use a raised seventh), or e.g. a melody going downward (in which case you'd use the natural seventh).