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Chapter 9 - Common Scales

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MELODIC SCALE

The diagram below contains the MELODIC scale. It is identical to the major scale except the fourth and fifth degrees are sharp (1, 2, 3, #4, #5, 6, 7).

The melodic scale is famous for being played forward using the sharp fourth and fifth (1, 2, 3, #4, #5, 6, 7) and backwards using the church mode pattern (7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1).

This is the entire melodic scale.

The formula for the melodic scale is 1, 2, 3, #4, #5, 6, 7 (ascending) and 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 (descending).

This is an example of the Melodic scale broken down into seven individual modes.

 

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