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Obviously, if you transpose a scale to a new key, you get a new series of notes, so it’s useful to memorise the gaps between each note (aka ‘intervals’). In the minor pentatonic scale every interval ...

Guitar skills: We’re always harping on about the minor pentatonic scale. This essential scale is the most frequently used set of notes in rock, blues, country, metal, funk and even jazz lead guitar.

This is a great scale to add flavour and mystique to your Aeolian (minor scale) soloing. The Hungarian Gypsy is our next minor scale and is very dark sounding, with its formula of R-2-b3-#4-5-b6-7.

You can substitute minor pentatonic for Dorian since all its five notes are contained within the scale; check out Luca’s bluesy lick in bar 7 to hear it in action. And for that altered E7 at the ...

So to make an 8-note major scale minor, you lower the pitch of the third, sixth and seventh notes by a half step. A half step translates to one fret on the guitar, or one key on the piano.

The melodic minor scale is a minor scale with both the sixth and seventh notes raised by half a step, but only when ascending. A descending melodic minor scale is identical to a natural minor scale.