I find it to be of limited use for Rock, Blues and Metal. VII- Altered scale- (aka Super Locrian or Diminished Whole tone Scale) used over Altered Dominant chords esp.V- Hindu scale- for dominant 7 flat 13 chords or over VI7 in a Major VI II V I Progression (Also called Mixolydian flat six).IV- Lydian Dominant scale- Dominant 7th Scale with a Sharp 4.bIII- Lydian Augmented scale- for Major chords with a sharp 5.Plus Jazz players will also find some very useful modes of this scale: If you play Jazz guitar, Jamey Aebersold's Scale Syllabus lists it as the most common choice to play over a minor seventh chord after Dorian Minor, and the Bebop Minor scales. Playing the ascending form as its own scale (no switch to natural minor when going down) is playing Jazz Minor, which is historically derived from the ascending form of Melodic Minor but YOU PLAY THE CHART UP AND DOWN THE SAME LIKE ANY OTHER SCALE. Jazz players looked at the ascending form and saw it generated modes that were extremely useful over jazz chords. Remember, Melodic Minor is different ascending (1 2 3 4 5 6 7) than descending (1 2 3 4 5 6 7). So composers would use this going up the scale, but going down they would use plain old natural minor. So many classical composers began raising the flat six to a natural six, resulting in what is essentially the Major Scale with a Flat 3, and it didn't sound very minor at all. Thing was, this left a big jump of a flat third between the flat six and the natural seven in Harmonic minor. The tense sound of the dominant 7th chord formed by the Harmonic Minor scale creates a stronger sense of resolution to the root or one chord (I- or I- 7). E Minor Guitar Chord Chart- Open Position.A Minor Guitar Chords Open Position Chord Chart.A Minor Guitar Chords Sixth String Root Chord Chart.If you don't know what chords go where in Natural Minor (when a scale is played with chords on each note, it’s called a harmonized scale), see Natural Minors fifth chord is usually a minor or minor 7th (V-7). If you are writing a song in a minor key, then the scale gives you a lot of crunchy chords to choose from. The point of this modification to the Natural Minor scale is to make the fifth chord of the key a Dominant 7th chord, which we would write out using the Roman Numeral System as V7. The melodic minor scale is really only used by jazz musicians, but there are a lot of chords that can be built from the scale. The Natural Minor has a flatted seventh scale degree, but the Harmonic Minor has a Natural Seventh Scale Degree like the Major Scale). Harmonic Minor is the Natural Minor Scale with a raised seventh scale degree (i.e. Melodic Minor came about as a modification to To understand the origin of Melodic Minor we must understand a little bit about the Harmonic Minor scale. It was used mainly for pieces that were performed by singers, rather than the primarily instrumental compositions we tend to associate with Classical Music. The Melodic Minor scale is a scale used by composers in European Classical music. The Jazz Minor scale is derived from the Melodic Minor scale. Eg.Jazz (Ascending Melodic) Minor Scale on Guitar Although this site is specifically oriented (read biased) toward Rock, Blues, and Metal guitar styles, I had a lot of requests for this so I decided to make a chart for it. Once you are comfortable with this, sing the scale degree formula as well. Eg.Ģ) Memorize the scale degree formulas for each modeģ) On the guitar, practice each mode in every shape of the CAGED system by playing slowly and accurately.ģ) Sing and play the note names when practicing in a mode in each shape of the CAGED system. Click on each mode to check out the diagrams for every mode in every form of the CAGED system.ġ) Memorize the order the modes appear in. Use this chart as an aid in memorizing the modes of the melodic minor scale.