The melodic minor scale is a minor scale with both the ... In western music, modal music dates from before the use of scales and keys. Modes are similar to tonal scales. In a tonal scale, each ...

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and diminished whole-tone scales (sometimes referred to as the 7th mode of the melodic minor scale) under my fingers and in my brain. You can get such a hip sound in your playing if you understand ...