Why are the minor scales of the guitar called Harmonic, Natural & Melodic?
A diatonic scale having a half step between the second and third degrees and any of several intervalic arrangements above the fifth. Meaning #1: a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 2nd and 3rd and 5th and 6th Synonym: minor diatonic scale A minor scale in music theory is a diatonic scale with a third scale degree at an interval of a minor third above the tonic. While this definition encompasses modes with the minor third, such as Dorian mode, the term may more usually refer only to the natural minor, harmonic minor, and melodic minor scales, described below, which are in most common use in western classical music (see major and minor). The natural minor scale is the same as the 6th musical mode of the major scale (the Aeolian mode). For example, the white notes of a keyboard give a major scale from C to C. If the notes are played beginning from the sixth step of that scale, which is A, then a natural minor scale (the “relative minor” of C) is heard. (mor
