What’s on the The Melodic Minor poster
Classical melodic minor against Jazz melodic minor, side by side.
- Classical melodic minor: Ascending: raise the 6th and 7th
- Classical melodic minor: A B C D E F♯ G♯ A
- Classical melodic minor: Descending: revert to natural minor
- Classical melodic minor: A G F E D C B A
- Classical melodic minor: Smooths the awkward leap in harmonic minor
- Jazz melodic minor: Raised 6th and 7th in both directions
- Jazz melodic minor: A B C D E F♯ G♯ A, up and down
- Jazz melodic minor: Treated as a scale in its own right
- Jazz melodic minor: Source of the altered and lydian dominant modes
- Jazz melodic minor: The default in modern practice
- Same notes ascending. The only difference is what happens on the way back down.
A major scale with a flattened third is the fastest way to find it on any instrument.
Questions about the The Melodic Minor poster
- What’s on the The Melodic Minor poster?
- Classical melodic minor against Jazz melodic minor, side by side. Classical melodic minor: Ascending: raise the 6th and 7th; Classical melodic minor: A B C D E F♯ G♯ A; Classical melodic minor: Descending: revert to natural minor; Classical melodic minor: A G F E D C B A; Classical melodic minor: Smooths the awkward leap in harmonic minor; Jazz melodic minor: Raised 6th and 7th in both directions; Jazz melodic minor: A B C D E F♯ G♯ A, up and down; Jazz melodic minor: Treated as a scale in its own right; Jazz melodic minor: Source of the altered and lydian dominant modes; Jazz melodic minor: The default in modern practice; Same notes ascending. The only difference is what happens on the way back down.. A major scale with a flattened third is the fastest way to find it on any instrument.
- Who is the The Melodic Minor poster for?
- The Melodic Minor belongs to the Music section rather than to a school year, because music is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning scales & modes can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the The Melodic Minor poster?
- Classical: raise 6 and 7 going up, natural coming down. Jazz: raise both, always. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so The Melodic Minor belongs on the wall where that music work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with The Melodic Minor?
- The Blues Scale, Chromatic & Whole Tone and Dorian sit alongside The Melodic Minor in the Music section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.The Blues ScaleChromatic & Whole ToneDorian
- Is the The Melodic Minor poster free to download and print?
- Yes. The Melodic Minor downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Music section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the The Melodic Minor poster print at?
- The Melodic Minor is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of The Melodic Minor loses nothing.Printing guide
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