A Melodic minorScale
Formula
A Melodic minor on the chromatic circle
A Melodic minor is the 1st mode of the Melodic minor family. Pick another note on the circle to open the scale that starts there.
A Melodic minor across the fretboard
Every note of the scale up to the 16th fret, named by its degree. The root is a ring. Step through the five CAGED positions one at a time in the scale library.
Chords in A Melodic minor
Stack every other note of the scale from each degree and you get its chords. Open any of them in the chord library.
Where A Melodic minor fits
Jazz minor: over minor-major 7 and minor 6 chords, the tonic of a minor key in jazz. Its modes give jazz most of its altered sounds.
A Melodic minor is mode 1 of the melodic minor family. The same notes played from each of its other degrees give the family's other modes:
Move one note by a half step and you get a different scale:
Melodic minor scale in every key
A Melodic minor scale questions
What notes are in the A Melodic minor scale?
A B C D E F♯ G♯. As degrees from the root: 1 2 ♭3 4 5 6 7.
What is the A Melodic minor scale formula?
1 2 ♭3 4 5 6 7, or in steps between the notes, W H W W W W H (W is a whole step of two frets, H a half step of one fret, 1½ three frets).
How do you play the A Melodic minor scale on guitar?
This page draws every note of A Melodic minor up to the 16th fret, each named by its degree with the root as a ring. To learn it a few frets at a time, open it in the scale library and step through its five CAGED positions, from the G shape to the E shape to the D shape to the C shape to the A shape.
What chords are in the A Melodic minor scale?
Am(maj7) (i), Bm7 (ii), Cmaj7♯5 (♭III+), D7 (IV), E7 (V), F♯m7♭5 (vi°), G♯m7♭5 (vii°).
When is the A Melodic minor scale used?
Jazz minor: over minor-major 7 and minor 6 chords, the tonic of a minor key in jazz. Its modes give jazz most of its altered sounds.