Melodic Minor Ascending scale
Melodic Minor Ascending pairs a minor third with a natural sixth and seventh, so the bottom half sounds minor while the top half climbs like a major scale.
- Used for
- Jazz, film scores and classical melodies that rise out of a minor key.
- Formula
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Steps W H W W W W H Semitones 2-1-2-2-2-2-1 Degrees 1 2 ♭3 4 5 6 7 - Relationships
- Its seven rotations supply much of the modern jazz vocabulary, Lydian Dominant and the Altered scale among them.
- Also called
- Jazz Minor, Gaurimanohari, and Minor-Major.
Melodic Minor Ascending in all 12 keys
Pick a key to see it on the piano, or jump straight to the guitar view.
- C C Melodic Minor Ascending scale piano guitar
- D flat Db Melodic Minor Ascending scale piano guitar
- D D Melodic Minor Ascending scale piano guitar
- E flat Eb Melodic Minor Ascending scale piano guitar
- E E Melodic Minor Ascending scale piano guitar
- F F Melodic Minor Ascending scale piano guitar
- G flat Gb Melodic Minor Ascending scale piano guitar
- G G Melodic Minor Ascending scale piano guitar
- A flat Ab Melodic Minor Ascending scale piano guitar
- A A Melodic Minor Ascending scale piano guitar
- B flat Bb Melodic Minor Ascending scale piano guitar
- B B Melodic Minor Ascending scale piano guitar
