Jazz (Ascending Melodic) Minor Scale by Jay Skyler

Along with Harmonic Minor, Melodic Minor has a natural 7th (7) scale degree. It is also different ascending (1 2 3 4 5 6 7) than descending (1 2 3 4 5 6 7). Jazz players looked at the ascending form and saw it generated modes that were extremely useful over jazz chords. Playing the ascending form as its own scale (no switch to natural minor when going down) is playing Jazz Minor, which is historically derived from the ascending form of Melodic Minor but YOU PLAY THE CHART UP AND DOWN THE SAME LIKE ANY OTHER SCALE. If you play Jazz guitar, Jamey Aebersold's Scale Syllabus lists it as the most common choice to play over a minor seventh chord after Dorian Minor, and the Bebop Minor scales.

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