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Comparing Types of Minor Scales
Figure 4.21
Listen to the dierences between the natural minor 31 , harmonic minor 32 , and melodic minor 33 scales.
Exercise 4.4.3 (Solution on p. 159.)
Rewrite each scale from Figure 4.18 as an ascending harmonic minor scale.
Exercise 4.4.4 (Solution on p. 159.)
Rewrite each scale from Figure 4.18 as an ascending and descending melodic minor scale.
4.4.5 Jazz and "Dorian Minor"
Major and minor scales are traditionallythe basis for Western Music (Section 2.8), but jazz theoryalso
recognizes other scales, based on the medieval church modes (p. 226), which are veryuseful for improvisation.
One of the most useful of these is the scale based on the dorian mode, which is often called the dorian minor,
since it has a basicallyminor sound. Like anyminor scale, dorian minor maystart on anynote, but like
dorian mode, it is often illustrated as natural notes beginning on d.
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