When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Douglas Elbinger/Getty Images The Melodic Minor scale was used by Paul McCartney the ...

The melodic minors should really be the name of every junior school choir, but in actual fact, the melodic minor scale is like an eccentric cousin of the natural and harmonic variants. You can use two ...

Major and minor scales are music’s Yin and Yang. Major scales convey a happy, cheerful mood, while minor scales are naturally darker and more sombre in character. These two opposites provide broad, ...

Harmonic minor keys are used when writing chords. There is another version of the minor key known as the melodic minor. This is used when writing a melody. Each key signature has two possible keys.