Chord/Scale Relations
 
 Overview 

 1) Sound and Music 

 2) The Major Scale 

 3) Chords and Harmony 

 4) Scales and Melody 

 5) Meter and Rhythm 

 6) Chord/Scale Relations 
    Introduction 
    Scale Tones 
    Scale Tone Triads 
    Other Scale Tone Chords 
    C Major Scale Chords 
    Major Scale Progressions 
    C Melodic Minor Chords 
    Melodic Minor Progressions 
    C Harmonic Minor Chords 
    Harmonic Minor Progressions 
    Related Chords of Other Keys 
    Roman Numeral Notation 
    Key Centres 

 7) Playing with Chords 

 8) Playing with Scales 

 9) Writing Songs 



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(6.6)  C Melodic Minor Chords

The Major scale is not the only scale type from which we can extract related chords.

We can repeat the process described above for any scale type, in any key. Each different scale type yields a different pattern of related chords.

For example, C Melodic Minor differs from C Major in having a third note of Eb, rather than E.  Thus the first related chord we find is Cm (=C+Eb+G) rather than Cmaj.





In fact, this one different note changes several of the related chords, as you see from the table below.




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