How to Play Melodic Minor Guitar Scales

Video Transcript

"Now for a second alternative to your natural Minor scale outside of the modes we have our Melodic Minor scale. Now this is a unique scale. It has the, it's made up of the same seven, seven tones in the octave but in this case on the way up the scale sounds different than on the way back down. We will actually be raising the sixth and seventh scale degrees. What that means is you start with a regular Minor scale right. We have A and A we'll say. A,E,C,D and E that was first degree, second, third, fourth, fifth. Now the sixth instead of playing the F here we're going to do F Sharp. Raised sixth, raised seventh too just like the Harmonic Minor. Going to keep doing that on the way up but on the way back down we play natural. This is a scale often seen in Jazz compositions to create tensions. And to create chromaticism because on the way up we have the different set of notes than on the way back down."