But if you still find yourself trapped in the confines of pentatonic and major scales, a good way to break this harmonic stalemate is to explore new-sounding scales. Although most popular music ...

Harmonic minors use the relative major key signature and raise the seventh note of the scale. For example, in A harmonic minor there are no sharps or flats other than the raised seventh of G#.

While the natural minor and other major scale modes are built on tone and semitone intervals, the distance between the b6 and 7th degrees of the harmonic minor is a minor 3rd, which provides its ...