Bonus Free Melodic Minor Lesson

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.