Whether you're checking into the Hotel California or sheltering from the cold November Rain, the harmonic minor scale is right there with you. This lesson demystifies it with examples you can use now.

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The solution was to raise the seventh note to give the harmonic minor - the notes in G harmonic minor are G, A, B b , C, D, Eb, F#. The V-I is now D-Gm or D7-Gm, (making the V chord a seventh chord, ...

The Beatles were big proponents of the 4-chord harmonic progression (Image credit: David Redfern / Getty) If we re-order these same chords, we can hear another popular sequence: C major - A minor - F ...

Harmonic minor keys are used when writing chords. There is another version of the minor key known as the melodic minor. This is used when writing a melody. Each key signature has two possible keys ...

These chords, and their minor key versions, are ubiquitous in tonal music of all kinds. In particular, we find that virtually every piece of tonal music, in all styles, ends with the movement of IV-I ...

By contrast, the harmonic minor has a unique sound to it, which makes it rather appealing to the ears. The reason for this is that it features a major 7th interval (1-2-b3-4-5-b6-7), making it one ...

Harmonic minor keys are used when writing chords. There is another version of the minor key known as the melodic minor. This is used when writing a melody. Each key signature has two possible keys ...