The pattern of a melodic minor key is: tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - tone - semitone ascending and tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - semitone - tone descending. Harmonic minors use ...
In the second half of this bar, I initiate an ascending ... by a long descending line that carries us through to the end of the solo. Again, these lines are based on E minor hexatonic.