![]() Below you will find a complete melodic minor modal reference. Just like the major scale, there are also seven modes of the melodic minor scale and among them are the altered scale, the Lydian dominant scale and the Lydian augmented scale. Guitarists tend not to use this theory and use the same melodic minor pattern for both ascending and descending, which is the way I will teach you here. ![]() This comes from the harmonic minor scale and the augmented second interval between the sixth and seventh degrees which is sometimes considered too harsh in an orchestral environment, so composers tend to raise the sixth degree by a semi-tone if the melody is ascending to the seventh (creating a standard melodic minor scale or ascending melodic minor), and when the melody is descending from the seventh to the sixth, the seventh is lowered a semi-tone (creating a natural minor scale or descending melodic minor). Some classical composers have two versions of the melodic minor scale, one ascending, the other descending. The melodic minor scale is a seven note scale with a numeric formula of 1-2- ♭3-4-5-6-7-8/1. ![]()
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