To find this, just count down three semitones (count to the left ... and raise the seventh note of the scale. For example, in A harmonic minor there are no sharps or flats other than the raised ...

Play an E natural (the white note) and you’re in a happy place, but drop it by a semitone to an Eb (black note) and the whole mood changes. There are a few types of minor scale, but we’re ...

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 ...