Jazz Melodic Minor Scale

The final minor scale we are going to look at is the Melodic Minor Scale also known as the Jazz Melodic Minor Scale. The notes of the A Melodic Minor Scale are A, B, C, D, E, F#, G# A. Unlike the Trad...

Traditional Melodic Minor Scales

The Traditional Melodic Minor scale is like two different in one. In relation to the Natural Minor Scale the Traditional Minor Scale has a raised 6th and 7th degree ascending and a natural 6th and 7th...

Minor Scales

First, I am going to apologize for not writing an August Blog. We were on vacation, and I fell into a vegetative state of mind. In July I wrote about Minor Scales and left with the question why Natura...

Musical Keys, Part Two

Last month I wrote about Major Keys. Today we look at minor keys. Every Major key has a relative minor key. To create the notes of minor key start on the 6th note of a Major key and create a new scale...

Musical Keys

On the April blog I wrote about the musical alphabet. The alphabet has 12 notes, therefore the language of music has 12 Major and 12 Minor Keys. Each key being named from each note name of the alphabe...