Minor Scales in Music Theory

Minor scales are a very common and varied group of scales in music. These are individual scales that have some things in common, viz a viz a sad, negative, depressing or muted tone as opposed to the major chords.

These are heptatonic (seven note) scales that traverse the octave in the following pattern of steps with respect to the chromatic scale. But these scales are of multiple types:

Natural Minor: 2  -  1  -  2  -  2  -  1  -  2  -  2
Harmonic Minor: 2  -  1  -  2  -  2  -  1  -  3  -  1
Ascending Melodic Minor: 2  -  1  -  2  -  2  -  2  -  2  -  1
Descending Melodic Minor: 2  -  2  -  1  -  2  -  2  -  1  -  2

Explaining the first series (the rest are alike in meaning):

The above series indicate that after playing the tonic note, after which the major scale will be named, we play the second note, which is 2 semitones away from it. The third note of the scale is 1 semitone away from the second note, and so on and so forth. For a better explanation of the step jumps, view the post on major scales.

N.B.: Unless otherwise specified, a minor scale refers to the natural minor scale.
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