E Melodic minorScale
Formula
E Melodic minor on the chromatic circle
E Melodic minor is the 1st mode of the Melodic minor family. Pick another note on the circle to open the scale that starts there.
E 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 E 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 E 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.
E 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:
- E Melodic minor
- F♯ Dorian ♭2
- G Lydian augmented
- A Lydian dominant
- B Mixolydian ♭6
- C♯ Locrian ♮2
- D♯ Altered
Move one note by a half step and you get a different scale:
Melodic minor scale in every key
E Melodic minor scale questions
What notes are in the E Melodic minor scale?
E F♯ G A B C♯ D♯. As degrees from the root: 1 2 ♭3 4 5 6 7.
What is the E 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 E Melodic minor scale on guitar?
This page draws every note of E 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 E shape to the D shape to the C shape to the A shape to the G shape.
What chords are in the E Melodic minor scale?
Em(maj7) (i), F♯m7 (ii), Gmaj7♯5 (♭III+), A7 (IV), B7 (V), C♯m7♭5 (vi°), D♯m7♭5 (vii°).
When is the E 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.