Natural and harmonic flavours explainedWe're going to take you on a trip to the darker side, exploring how to construct and use the most fundamental type of minor scale - the natural minor scale - and ...

Harmonic minors use the relative major key signature and raise the seventh note of the scale. For example, in A harmonic minor there are no sharps or flats other than the raised seventh of G#.

Example 5 This pattern is a mirror image of Example 1. That said, the Harmonic Minor scale shape has wider minor 3rd stretches (the Aeolian doesn’t), so keep your fretting hand relaxed and light on ...

Harmonic minors use the relative major key signature and raise the seventh note of the scale. For example, in A harmonic minor there are no sharps or flats other than the raised seventh of G#.