Free · scales · plays in your browser
A melodic minor scale
A melodic minor is A B C D E F♯ G♯ going up and natural A minor coming down. Hear it, see it on piano and guitar, take it as MIDI or WAV.
Mika plays the A melodic minor scale up and back down. No improvising.Tap Hear it, or tap any note on the board.
A B C D E F♯ G♯
The notes of the A melodic minor scale
A B C D E F♯ G♯
Formula: 1 2 ♭3 4 5 6 7. Steps from note to note: 2 1 2 2 2 2 1 semitones (whole, half, whole, whole, whole, whole, half).
Going up, A minor with the sixth and seventh raised (F♯ and G♯); classical players come down in natural minor, jazz players keep it the same both ways.
In Hz, from A4: A4 440.0 · B4 493.9 · C5 523.3 · D5 587.3 · E5 659.3 · F♯5 740.0 · G♯5 830.6.
The A melodic minor scale on the piano
White keys: A B C D E; black keys: F♯ G♯.
For the fingering, slide the thumb under after the black keys, never onto one.
The A melodic minor scale on guitar
One position, frets 4–8, low E string first: low E: 4 5 7 8 (G♯ A B C) · A: 5 7 (D E) · D: 4 6 7 (F♯ G♯ A) · G: 4 5 7 (B C D) · B: 5 7 (E F♯) · high E: 4 5 7 8 (G♯ A B C). 0 = open string.
The root A sits at fret 5 on the low E string and at fret 0 on the A string. Slide the same shape there for any other root.
Two sharps up, none down
A melodic minor raises F and G on the way up so a melody can step to the octave smoothly: A B C D E F♯ G♯ A. Coming down, classical exercises use the plain A minor scale, G F E D C B A. In jazz it stays F♯ G♯ both ways. Play both directions on the piano and the change from F♯ to F is easy to hear.
More scales
Melodic minor scale A minor pentatonic scale A minor pentatonic scale on guitar A major scale on guitar A minor scale on guitar A harmonic minor scale A minor: scale and chords
How this page works
Hear it plays the scale up and down at 100 BPM on one of four Brumm sounds. Take it gives the same notes as a MIDI file and a WAV. − and + move the root. Every note here is computed from the formula.
Sources
Scales and modes: Open Music Theory, musictheory.net. Piano fingerings: the standard scale-book fingerings (ABRSM scale books; Hanon, The Virtuoso Pianist, part 3). Trumpet valves: the standard B♭ trumpet fingering chart (Yamaha, Bach). Hz: A4 = 440 Hz, ISO 16.
No microphone here, and the page keeps nothing. How the site counts visits.
Audio: tones your browser makes on this page; no microphone. Nothing about the audio reaches the visit count.
Facts checked on .