{"id":14919,"date":"2016-10-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/?p=14919"},"modified":"2024-10-07T15:26:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T23:26:35","slug":"the-fingering-of-the-melodic-minor-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hearplaymain.wpenginepowered.com\/the-fingering-of-the-melodic-minor-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Guide To The Fingering Of The Melodic Minor Scale In All Twelve Keys"},"content":{"rendered":"

You want to learn the proper fingering of the melodic minor scale in all twelve keys and that’s why you arrived at this page.<\/p>\n

Believe it or not, playing a given scale in all twelve keys can be frustrating without a proper understanding of the right fingers to play the scale with. Although we’ve covered the melodic minor scale<\/a> in a previous post, we’ve not dedicated a lesson to learning its fingering.<\/p>\n

Today’s lesson will start out with a review of the melodic minor scale, before proceeding to its fingering for both hands. At end of this lesson, I’ll be really sure that you’ll be able to effortlessly<\/em> play the melodic minor scale with both hands, and in all twelve keys.<\/p>\n

A Review On The Melodic Minor Scale<\/h2>\n

Let’s start from the scratch by defining a musical scale.<\/p>\n

Jermaine Griggs has given us the most basic definition of a musical scale. Check it out:<\/p>\n

A scale is a ladder <\/em>of notes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As simple as this definition may seem, I appreciate it because it takes us back to the Latin word scala<\/em>, where the English word ‘scale’ is derived from.<\/p>\n

The musical scale looks like a ladder in ways more than one:<\/p>\n