There are other scales, such as the Dorian mode (1-2-b3-4-5-6-b7), but the minor pentatonic and natural minor are the ones we usually learn first. By contrast, the harmonic minor has a unique ...

Here’s how it works. The melodic minors should really be the name of every junior school choir, but in actual fact, the melodic minor scale is like an eccentric cousin of the natural and harmonic ...

Harmonic minor keys are used when writing chords. There is another version of the minor key known as the melodic minor. This is used when writing a melody. Each key signature has two possible keys.