So, here's the melodic minor scale. The melodic minor scale comes from the regular minor scale C, what I want to do is, derive it from the major scale because that's the easiest way. So, let's take a look at this melodic minor scale. From C to C I just set as major, C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C. If you don't know the fingering well for C, we call the fingering well for C fourth, next to tonic. Tonic is the root or the 1, again C, D, E, F, G, A, E, C.
Now, the melodic minor is taught different ways, if you have ever heard of a mode; the melodic minor is the same thing as a mode. I am not going to cover it this way because this is the easy way to do it. The only difference between a C major scale and a C melodic minor scale is that, that minor, guess what, is the third. Let's take that E and the C major scales C, D, E and take it down, and we are going to leave everything else the same.
So, I am going to do something a little strange here and block out the notes, all the notes in C major. Let's take this E and put it down to Eb. Now let's separate them because that's what a scale is. You never play something like this unless you are really angry or you want to get someone's attention. It works well though. Here we go, C, D, we need the E down to Eb, F, G, A, E, C, fantastic! You guys have just learned a new scale.
Now, I promised you that we would apply this over four chords. Let's go take a look at what those are.
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