The solution was to raise the seventh note to give the harmonic minor - the notes in G harmonic minor are G, A, B b , C, D, Eb, F#. The V-I is now D-Gm or D7-Gm, (making the V chord a seventh chord, ...

These minor perfect cadences exist in lots of contemporary songs, such as Santana’s Smooth, The Eagles’ Hotel California, and November Rain by Guns N’ Roses. The harmonic minor scale is also ...

Figure 4 offers a longer Moore-style line that is blues-based but expands the harmony with notes from the G harmonic minor scale (G, A, Bb, C, D, Eb, F#).

Figure 2 presents the song’s initial theme, which may be analyzed as being based on either the G Aeolian mode (G, A, Bb, C, D, Eb, F) or the G harmonic minor scale (G, A, Bb, C, D, Eb, F#), as ...

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#.

All major and harmonic minor scales in four octaves, with the hands one octave apart Sight-reading BM in Music Education Two solo works from the classical music repertoire, including a sonata movement ...

The final example is a descending run inspired by the likes of Yngwie Malmsteen or Vinnie Moore. Here we have adapted one note of the scale: every G is now a G#, which results in the exotic-sounding A ...

Scales, which Bailey refers to as “the building blocks of music”, come in many different forms – most commonly in the major, melodic minor or harmonic minor. Bill describes the melodic minor as the ...