MUS 105 - Scales

major pentatonic (notes)

1-2-3-5-6

minor pentatonic (notes)

1-♭3-4-5-♭7

major pentatonic (interval sequence)

2-2-3-2-3

whole tone

2-2-2-2-2-2

hexatonic

1-3-1-3-1-3

diatonic

2-2-1-2-2-2-1

melodic minor ascending

2-1-2-2-2-2-1

harmonic minor

2-1-2-2-1-3-1

harmonic major

2-2-1-2-1-3-1

octatonic

2-1-2-1-2-1-2-1

first mode of the diatonic scale

Ionian

second mode of the diatonic scale

Dorian

third mode of the diatonic scale

Phrygian

fourth mode of the diatonic scale

Lydian

fifth mode of the diatonic scale

Mixolydian

sixth mode of the diatonic scale

Aeolian

seventh mode of the diatonic scale

Locrian

what orders of the melodic minor ascending scale are important?

1st, 4th, 6th, 7th

first mode of the melodic minor ascending

[tonic] melodic minor ascending

fourth mode of the melodic minor ascending

F Acoustic, F Lydian Dominant

sixth mode of the melodic minor ascending

locrian “#2”

seventh mode of melodic minor ascending

altered scale, super locrian