Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmour and Slash are just three of the countless fans of this staple minor mode. Here, Stuart Ryan takes you through the structure of the scale, plus a handful of chords, riffs an ...

rootless closed-voicing chords, 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 the melodic minor scale, the sixth and seventh degree are ... based on these degrees of the scale make different kinds of chords. These chromatic alterations have been the basis of a whole ...