Example 4. The Chinese Scale – Key of C (C-E-F#-G-B) Bars 1-4 Here’s our first major idea, with chords constructed from the C Chinese scale. As this scale is closely related to the Lydian mode ...

modulating to the relative major key of E♭ major for the chorus and then modulating back to C minor. The melodic minor scale is a minor scale with both the sixth and seventh notes raised by half ...

This example is undeniably shape 5 E major pentatonic ... rather than playing notes from a scale. I’ve chosen the D shape in ...

So G major, for example has a key signature of one sharp, but this is also the key signature for E minor. To find this ... and raise the seventh note of the scale. For example, in A harmonic ...