Another Melodic Minor Scale Relationship

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Posted on 16 Jan 2010 19:45 UTC

Brian says: 

> My brain is fried from practicing sight-reading all night.  What do you
> get when you take A mel. minor, but then throw in a Bb?
> Not-quite-whole-tone?

Let’s see:

A – B - C – D – E – F# – G# – A

G# – (A) – Bb – C – D – E – F# – G#

So yeah, this is that scale that I call “whole tone with perfect 5th” (WT5), with A being the perfect 5th (minor 2nd in this case). Cool! I hadn’t thought of this linkage between WT5 and melodic minor before.



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