Here is a free bonus lesson from our new Melodic Minor Course (Practical Melodic Minor):
KEY LESSON POINT: The traditional directional rules of melodic minor (ascending with raised 6th/7th, descending as natural minor) are unnecessarily restrictive for composers. Instead, a more practical approach treats minor as a unified system where composers can freely draw from natural, melodic, and harmonic minor elements regardless of direction, particularly when approaching the dominant chord to create more expressive and captivating progressions.
Check out more from our Practical Melodic Minor Course here:
