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The jazz minor scale or ascending melodic minor scale is a derivative of the melodic minor scale, except only the ascending form of the scale is used. As the name implies, it is primarily used in jazz[citation needed], although it may be found in other types of music as well. It may be derived from the major scale with a minor third,[1] making it a synthetic scale, and features a dominant seventh chord on the fifth degree (V) like the harmonic minor scale.[2] It can also be derived from the diatonic Dorian mode with a major seventh.
Thus, the jazz minor scale can be represented by the following notation:
1, 2, ♭3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
The intervals between the notes of the jazz minor scale follow the sequence below:
whole, half, whole, whole, whole, whole, half
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^Overthrow, David and Ferguson, Tim (2007). The Total Jazz Bassist, p.41. ISBN 978-0-7390-4311-0.
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