The jazz minor scale is a derivative of the melodic minor scale, except only the ascending form of the scale is used. The harmonic minor scale uses the same keys as the parallel major scale same starting note, but major, but lowers the 3rd and the 6th. Melodic minor is a key sound when it comes to modern and traditional jazz guitar. The scale ascends as the bebop melodic minor and descends as the dominant bebop scale. The melodic minor scale is an exotic sounding scale and its modes are used extensively in modern jazz improvisation. To create a natural minor scale, start on the tonic note10 and. Melodic minor scales charts with fingering for piano. The notes of the c melodic minor scale descending are. Single octave melodic minor scales with fingerings for piano. For instance, since the 6th degree of f major is d, the relative minor of f major is d minor relationship to parallel major. Youtube 10 tricks to get an awesome piano technique how to practice piano scales. The melodic minor scale is slightly more complex in that it uses different notes in its ascending and descending versions.
We are already familiar with the modes of the major scale, but we can create modes from any preexisting scale. The melodic minor scale is generaly used in a different manner altogether. The most common scales when playing the piano, are major and minor scales. Includes all the major, harmonic minor and chromatic scales in a special one page per key format. Every scale determines a key,that is an harmonic combunation of tones based on that scale. I usually encourage students to choose harmonic minor as it is easier to learn and remember the fingering and notes you do not need to remember 2 different sets of notes and fingering for ascending and descending. With standard notation, fingerings, chord names and introductory text. Print out oneoctave and twooctave scale, i, iv and v chords, tonic chord.
A collection of scales for piano starting on the root c. We provide downloads for common scales including major, the three minor scales natural, harmonic, and melodic, the blues scale. The natural minor scale uses the following ascending stepwise pattern. Free piano scale fingering diagrams music matters blog. Free pdf downloads of c major, c harmonic minor, and more. About minor scales starting on white keys starting on black keys c minor c minor d minor e. Just the black keys is a new piano book for young beginners who need. The natural, melodic and harmonic minor forms are defined by grove music online as follows. The scales and arpeggios are split up into 3 main categories.
This scale can be abstracted from the characteristic movement of minor key melodies where the raised seventh acts as a leading note in the ascending direction the sixth is raised to avoid an augmented interval between the sixth and seventh degrees. Fortify minor melodic scales concept with this colorful 1 page printable. Click the links below for a pdf sample page from the book, and for a midi sound file of the page for you to listen to. This scale is also some kind of peculiar since it is sometimes played differently ascending and descending. When you go up the scale, you are using the melodic minor scale. I am a voice student, and can play piano somewhat by ear, but have been getting tripped up on the melodic minor scales. All scales are made with a specific pattern of whole steps tones and half steps semitones.
Melodic minor is the scale when it comes to contemporary jazz. Learn how to form other types of scales in all keys. A natural minor scale can also be constructed by altering a major scale with accidentals. We will begin by improvising melodies using only the black notes of the piano. Pdf complete scales and arpeggios for piano download full. Traditional harmonization in major and minor keys uses chords formed by the dia. These make great handouts for piano teachers to use with students. She heard him drop a gear, heard the engine scream in protest and watched the narrowbodied, lithe to. So if you already know how to play your regular c minor scale, simply raise the 6th and 7th notes of the scale and theres your c melodic minor scale. When you go up the scale, you are using the melodic minor scale, but when you go down the scale. Scale, chord, arpeggio and cadence studies in all major and minor keys presented in a convenient twopage format.
Harmonic minor scale and chords, natural and melodic minor piano music. Melodic minor iiv7i triad pairs the use of triad pairs adjacent diatonic triads which form a hexatonic, or six note, scale, has been a relatively recent addition, historically speaking, to the general vocabulary of improvised music, becoming more prevalent among improvising musicians during the past 30 years or so. All 12 major scales share the same pattern of whole and half steps between the notes. The melodic minor handbook download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl. The thesaurus is arranged in the form of piano scales and melodic studies. Major, minor, harmonic and melodic minor scales are part 7 of. In jazz, the modes of the melodic minor scale are very widely used. Because of this, the key of a minor is called the relative minor of c major. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Every major key has a relative minor, which starts on the 6th scale degree or step. Melodic minor scales jyttes piano sheet collection. There are now many book cd combinations available to help the beginning improviser in many.
We provide downloads for common scales including major, the three minor scales natural, harmonic, and melodic, the blues scale, and others. Piano technique includes all the major, minor natural, harmonic. This bebop melodic minor scale variation makes use of the major 3rd as a passing tone as well as the minor 7th passing tone. Natural, harmonic and melodic forms about minor scales. The solution below shows the e melodic minor scale notes, intervals and scale degrees on the piano, treble clef and bass clef the lesson steps then describe how to identify the e melodic minor scale note interval positions, choose the note names and scale degree names. Scale compendium, often referred to as the major 326 or minor 330 pentatonic scale 4, play the shapes found in the exercises, but replace the written notes with the notes of your chos en scale.
The melodic minor scale is basically the regular natural minor scale with a raised 6th and 7th tone. Each scale has a different use and application in jazz piano. Jazz piano scales and exercises presents a novel and more interesting way to practice patterns and etudes while learning jazz. Select landscape mode to get best results printing it out. This book and video course is all that you will ever need for learning piano chords, scales, arpeggios, how to read music, and basic music theory. A melodic minor scale ascending heres the scale on the treble clef ascending. Natural, harmonic, and melodic forms margaret denton, piano. The first mode of the melodic minor scale isthe melodic minor scale. Downloadable in pdf format, 203 pages, plus 7 mp3 backing tracks. Click download or read online button to get the melodic minor handbook book now.
Harmonic minor scale and chords, natural and melodic. Wholehalfwholewholehalfwholewhole or whwwhww sure, it may look similar to the major scale pattern, but make no mistake, this slight rearrangement of half and. These excellent allinclusive books teach scales, chords, arpeggios, and cadences at three different levels. All melodic minor scales pdf major minor scales pdf. The melodic minor scale differs from the natural minor scale by the sixth and seventh notes, which are raised a semistep. Including the natural minor within scale requirements at the early grades can help develop a. For several centuries now, the melodic minor scale has been associated with the minor key as a chromatic variant of the natural minor scale, which is the oldest known scale of the minor key. The b minor melodic is different from some of the other scales, because it has different notes when you come back down the scale than it does when you go up the scale. From each key on the piano you can start either a major or a minor scale. Etude 8 hearing scales as harmonic extensions part 3. Playing scales on piano has the added benefit of encouraging visual memory. As we have already learned, a mode is a scale created by establishing a new root note within a preexisting scale. The main scales of western music are major and minor scales.
The harmonic minor differs from the natural minor by the sharpened seventh note, and this minor scale is consequently not played in the same. Read download piano scales arpeggios pdf pdf download. These structures are also the material i use for the 3 melodic minor jazz licks included in. All minor scales all guitar scales tabs pdf all major scales piano pdf.
Similar to the major scale, 7 modes can be derived from the melodic minor scale. The natural minor scale uses the same keys as the parallel major scale, but lowers the 3rd, 6th and 7th steps. Instructions on music fundamentals kindle edition by palmer, willard a. Minor scales are built on the 6th scale degree of a major scale. The other two are the natural minor and the melodic minor. This lesson provides an introduction to the melodic minor scale, explaining why jazz musicians use the scale and its. Thank you, thank you, thank you for the melodic minor scales. All keys are shown, including the commonly used 12 keys of the circle of fifths diagram, and other theoretical ie. Learn how to play piano chords, notes, scales, proper finger. Here is an overview of all the charts and other resources that are available on this site to view and also to download. Harmonic minor scale and chords, natural and melodic minor.
In the harmonic and melodic minor scales, the 7th degree is called the leading tone. Print and download in pdf or midi melodic minor scales. This document was created with prince, a great way of getting web content onto paper. Learn how to play piano chords, notes, scales, proper. C d eb f g ab bb c the 6th and 7th tones are ab and bb. The sound of the harmonic scale is somewhat characterized by the music of the middle east. The scale is a huge part of most modern jazz sounds. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Buy 20 steps e book four jazz scales you should know major scales. Piano professor, damon ferrante guides you through 140 stepbystep lessons for beginner. We call scales relative if they share the same key signature. Following the notation and fingerings for scales major, harmonic minor, and melodic minor in each of the 12 keys, three jazz exercises are given. Melodic minor modes and altered scale the jazz piano site. If you need staff paper, you may print the staff paper12 pdf file.
These notes create a pentatonic 5note scale that is easy to see, and can be accompanied effectively by just one or two chords. But in jazz, we play the true melodic minor scale both up and down, and call it the jazz melodic minor scale. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. An invaluable collection of scale, chord, arpeggio and cadence studies in all major and minor keys. In classical music, you play the true melodic minor scale ascending and the natural minor scale descending. By far, the standard book of technique exercises is hanon the virtuoso pianist. Melodic minor scales sheet music for piano download free. In other words, one wont really see a tune written in, say, c melodic minor that starts on the i chord, then goes to the v chord, then to the iv and so on. This is under construction but will be done in the coming weeks. It may be derived from the major scale with a minor third, making it a synthetic scale, and features a dominant seventh chord on the fifth degree v like the harmonic minor scale.
The melodic minor handbook download ebook pdf, epub. The harmonic minor scale is one of three minor scales. This page shows piano and treble clef diagrams of all melodic minor scales, starting from note c. All minor scales melodic for grades 1 to 5, students are given a choice of playing either harmonic or melodic minor scales. Heres a diagram of the harmonic c minor scale on piano. Melodic minor scales the melodic minor scale differs from the natural minor scale by the sixth and seventh notes, which are raised a semistep. The melodic minor scale is one of the longestablished aka traditional scales in music. For the melodic minor scale, you raise the sixth and seventh notes of a scale by a half step as you go up the scale and then return to the natural minor as you go down the scale.
Remember that for the melodic minor scale, when descending, you play the natural minor scale. C melodic minor scale and fingering chart 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 4 5 5 name c o m i n g d o w n g o i n g u p 1 5 1 5 2 4. In this video i go over 3 melodic minor licks that use some of the techniques. The picture charts below show all the 12 melodic scales in minor, easy to understand and play with the. The solution below shows the a melodic minor scale notes, intervals and scale degrees on the piano, treble clef and bass clef the lesson steps then describe how to identify the a melodic minor scale note interval positions, choose the note names and scale degree names for a quick summary of this topic, have a look at melodic minor scale. The notes of the c melodic minor scale ascending are. Each scale is provided as a separate pdf download with finger numbers above each note. Things you need to know in melodic minor jens larsen. You may just be helping me get an a in my piano class. High resolution sheet music free scales major minor harmonic. Heres a diagram of the a melodic minor scale on piano ascending. Learn how to play the b minor melodic piano scale piano.
The notes going up are b, c sharp, d, e, f sharp, g sharp, a sharp, and the return to b. In this lesson i will map out some of the basic and more advanced arpeggios and triads contained in the scale. Understanding basic music theory open textbooks for hong kong. Natural, harmonic, and melodic forms margaret denton, piano minor scales. Schirmer books, a division of macmillan publishing co. There arent tunes written in the key of c melodic minor, where chords derived from the native scale are used. To form the ascending melodic version, raise both the sixth and seventh notes by a semitone. Once you are familiar with the intervallic characteristics of the scale, it should be very easy to play in any key. The melodic minor scale uses the same keys as the parallel major scale, but lowers the 3rd when ascending going up and lowers both the 7th, 6th and third going down.
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