The "Circle of Fifths" is a memory aid for learning the major and minor scales which can equally be applied to all scales. The Melodic Minor scale is so called because this scale is frequently used for building melodies. A simpler way of saying this is that the Harmonic minor scale is the scale we use to build the chords in a minor key. The Harmonic minor scale is so called because it is from this scale that minor harmony is usually taken. Once again the reasons for the existence of these scales is historical. The Melodic Minor has two notes sharpened - the sixth and seventh note. After you have learnt, for example, the A natural minor scale, you only have to sharpen the seventh note to change it to a Harmonic minor scale. The Harmonic and Melodic Minor scales are variations of the Natural Minor scale. Harmonic and Melodic) you don't actually have to learn three different scales. Note that though there are three minor scales (Natural. It is possible to create your own scales by altering another as you wish, or completely coming up with your own. There are also very interesting scales from eastern music. There are many different scales: the major scale, three different forms of the minor scale, the blues scale, the pentatonic scale, the whole tone scale, the diminished scale and some scales that originated in Spain and India. If this sounds confusing to you, read the entire article, and if it is still unclear, see the musical scale article on Wikipedia or the Music Theory wikibook. By this, I mean if you are playing a major scale, beginning on the low E string at the fifth fret, which is an A note and then you played the same pattern of notes, but you started on the 3rd fret of the low E string, you will be playing a G major scale. It is important to remember that on the guitar, if you know the pattern of a particular scale, you can move that pattern anywhere else on the fret board and be playing in a different key. Other scales may use more than seven notes and some (e.g. For historical reasons the major scale and the minor scale consists of seven notes. Scales take their names from the first note played - the C major, C minor, C diminished are all scales that start with C. This is the complete chromatic scale over two octaves as visualized on the guitar. Basically play all the open notes and fretted notes on the first four frets in sequence starting with the low open E string and ending on the high open e string. Pianists visualize the chromatic scale as the seven white keys and five black keys but guitarists should visualize their complete chromatic scale as all the notes from the open E string (low) up to the open high e string. Unlike the piano where each semitone is represented by a key on the guitar each semitone is represented by a fret. The study of scales should start with the major scales and minor scales or the blues and pentatonic scales. Go back to the Medieval period and the system used then was called the Church Modes. Today's scale system is referred to as the major-minor system. It must be borne in mind that music as an activity precedes musical theory and that the scales we use now have an evolution that predates written records. A scale is simply a way of ordering the twelve sounds found in Western Music. From this simple twelve note system are all the other scales derived. The seven white keys and their corresponding black keys on a keyboard allows for easy visualization of the complete chromatic scale and the twelve semitones. Western music uses twelve notes called the complete chromatic scale. In Greek mythology the lyre was invented by Hermes who presented it to Apollo as recompense for stealing his cattle. The god of music Apollo strumming a lyre.
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