…chords that lead to each other. Otherwise, it does not sound right. I will explain that in a minute.
What melodic has to do is supporting the melody lines so that you can avoid augmented 2nd which is the known minor scale rating. Some patterns, I have them right now but they are very messy because I was not planning on anyone seeing my notes. I was writing a lesson in very quick draft, and I am the only one who can understand and read it because it is sloppy.
Here is my little thing. See how I have everything abbreviated just so that I know what it is. That is “pat” for pattern, “nat” for natural, “har” for harmonic and “mel” for melodic. T is for tone, S is for semi-tone and X2nd is for augmented 2nd.
For natural minor, we will use A minor because it is the easiest. (Demonstration) Pretty easy, right? Now, harmonic minor uses (Demonstration). A melodic uses (Demonstration). Some who uses the melodic scale, they avoided doing this. This is the augmented 2nd. By raising this one, all they have to do is go (Demonstration). In a harmonic scale, it goes up on the way down, and when it comes this way (Demonstration), they just lower it, because you do not actually need the leading tone to pull you up towards the tonic. I will explain the leading tone on this.
A leading tone is the key that actually pulls you towards the tonic, or the home key. So, in C major (Demonstration), C is going to be a tonic. The tonic is the very first note. It is the only note in that key that is the key of actual rest, which should be a key that you could end.
You would never finish a piece like this (Demonstration), unless you do this. (Demonstration) When you hear that, it is actually going back to the key of C, but depending on the hand. (Demonstration) This is the C cue with G over here.
The actual note that is the leading tone is the 7th note. It needs to be a semi-tone apart between here. (Demonstration) Now, we are playing the leading tone. See how you can just end there? It is pulling towards that note. (Demonstration) It is called the leading tone. (Demonstration)
If you ever want to end a piece, you just go to leading tone, like this. (Demonstration) It makes anything sound like it is finished. That is what they are doing.
In most major scales, they are usually going (Demonstration). I am just using different inversions, putting notes differently around but they are all the same notes. It is just G, B, D (Demonstration), see the leading tone going up to the C here. (Demonstration)
That is what they did all the time and then they got into the dilemma. On the harmonic scale, we do not have a semi-tone between that. That is a tone, because there is this note in here. It does not have that pull. If you can listen to this, it feels like it is floating at the end. It does not have that pull.
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