Why Should I Care About The Melodic Minor Scale

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🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In this episode, Adam and Peter dive into the Melodic Minor Scale and what we can do with it. Join us for some helpful tips on this invaluable scale and how to use it in your playing.

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0:00.0	Hey Adam,
0:01.4	Yo.
0:02.2	Do you care about this?
0:04.8	I like that scale, yeah.
0:06.5	What about this one?
0:10.3	That's, I like that one too, yeah.
0:11.8	Which one?
0:12.3	Up or down?
0:13.0	Well, it's the same one. I'm Adam Manist.
0:30.5	And you're listening to the You'll Hear podcast.
0:32.1	Explaining music.
0:34.0	Explaining music.
0:35.5	You're workshopping it every week, buddy.
0:37.8	Explaining music here at Open Studio. Go to go to OpenStubio.js.com.
0:40.6	Start your free trial today.
0:42.4	It's not free. It's free 99.
0:44.1	It's the best price ever.
0:47.3	This is our recurring series called What Makes the Scale Great, right?
0:50.3	No, this is not a recurring series.
0:51.9	We're just going to be talking.
0:53.0	So in Open Studio Pro Land the other day, we started talking about melodic minor modes. We were just really actually talking about the major modes and modes in general. And then I started talking about the melodic minor modes and I realized a lot of students really didn't know why they would care, why they should care. Wait, are you talking about modes of the melodic minor? modes of the melodic actor. And a lot of students didn't understand why they would care, why they should care. Wait, are you talking about modes of the melodic minor? Modes of the melodic minor. And a lot of students didn't understand why they should care about the melodic minor. Right. And what it even is, I think a lot of the classical people knew what the scale was. And we could talk about that. But not the modes, probably. But not the modes. And especially like not how useful those modes can be when we're improvising and doing things like building chords and building melodies.
1:29.7	So I thought we could talk about the melodic minor scale today, Peter, why don't you set everybody up with describing what it actually is?
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