

While the melodic minor is a very old scale, the scales here fall under the category sometimes known as the “Jazz melodic minor”, which is slightly different.

For instance, D Dorian b9 would be the same as the second mode of the C Melodic Minor scale. But remember the patterns are all derived from the first one. Here, all of the modes of the melodic minor scale are presented as they would be if beginning from C. But that's okay, sometimes it just takes a long time. It may take a long time to apply these to your playing. So learn all of the fingering patterns, and practice them all from the root of C, and also as a group of modes relative to each other.

These scales can give you some new sounds that you've never encountered before. We're going to play all of these modes with a root of C, but it's a great idea to practice them as modes of each other for instance, F melodic minor, G Dorian flat nine, and the like. We're going to talk about the melodic minor and its various modes.
