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F Melodic Minor Scale

The F melodic minor scale has a fluid, expressive quality. Jazz guitarists use it over minor-major seventh chords, and its modes provide material for soloing over altered dominant and half-diminished chords.

Also known as

  • F Jazz Minor

Formula

1 2 ♭3 4 5 6 7

Notes

FGG#A#CDE

Diatonic Chords

These chords are built from the notes of the F Melodic Minor scale. Each degree gets a chord based on the intervals stacked above it.

ii G Minor
III+ G# aug
vi° D dim
vii° E dim
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