Musicians simply must know their scales and he came up with a papercraft slide rule for major and minor scales. The system is very easy to use. He’s uploaded PDF files that let you print out the ...

The shapes, both major and minor ... than playing notes from a scale. I’ve chosen the D shape in the key of A major here.

Harmonic minors use the relative major key signature and raise the seventh note of the scale. For example, in A harmonic minor there are no sharps or flats other than the raised seventh of G#.

The reason for this is that it features a major 7th interval (1-2-b3-4-5-b6-7), making it one note different from the natural minor scale. While the natural minor and other major scale modes are ...

modulating to the relative major key of E♭ major for the chorus and then modulating back to C minor. The melodic minor scale is a minor scale with both the sixth and seventh notes raised by half ...