You can start incorporating them into your warm-up by playing or singing through each, going up a half-step, and repeating the process for an octave or two! Once you’re familiar, you’ll see these scales popping up all over your sheet music. The first mode of the melodic minor scale isthe melodic minor scale. We hope you’re now feeling a little more comfortable with your minor scales.
Click here for the free PDF of the image below! We wanted to give you a printable guide you can use while you’re memorizing these scales. Instead, they enjoy the unique sound of the raised 6th and 7th scale degrees. One thing to note about the melodic scale is that often, especially in jazz music, musicians won’t lower the scale degrees when descending. The melodic minor scale raises scale degrees 6 and 7 from the natural minor scale when ascending, but lowers them to their natural minor state when descending. Melodic minor scales are a little bit special since they are played differently ascending (going up) and descending (going down). The harmonic minor scale is nearly the same as the natural scale, but with a raised 7th scale degree. Remember, if you’re looking at a major scale, lower scale degrees 3, 6, and 7 to get the minor scale. In other words, every major scale has a relative minor scale with the same key signature as its own and which starts on its sixth note. Minor scales have associated scales which occur in the major. D Natural minor scale Let’s start with the natural. These are the natural, melodic and harmonic minor scales. There are three types of minor staircases, and we’ll look at them all here.
This lesson is about the whole D minor scale. The natural minor scale is the naturally occurring diatonic scale with no altered scale degrees or added accidentals. A minor scale can have two forms, a harmonic and a melodic form. Melodic minor scale solfege Descending melodic minor scale solfege. Let’s review the three types of minor scales.