Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmour and Slash are just three of the countless fans of this staple minor mode. Here, Stuart Ryan takes ...

The sharp notes, or ‘accidentals’, fall on the black keys, while the regular or ‘natural’ notes fall ... The other most common scale is the minor scale, which has the interval pattern ...

The melodic minor scale is a minor scale with both the sixth and seventh notes raised by half a step, but only when ascending. In western music, modal music dates from before the use of scales and ...