Jim Oblon drops some blues science, demystifying the practice of alternating between parallel minor and major pentatonics ...

Harmonic minors use the relative major key signature and raise the seventh note of the scale. For example, in A harmonic minor there are no sharps or flats other than the raised seventh of G#.

The melodic minor scale is a minor scale with both the sixth and seventh notes raised by half a step, but only when ascending. In western music, modal music dates from before the use of scales and ...