 This video is instruction on the minor scales. Now, for Eastern Regional Orchestra auditions, you need to do a melodic minor scale of your choice in three octaves. Now, a melodic minor scale is really cool because it's different going up the scale than it is coming down the scale. And I often find that a great way to think of a melodic minor scale is to compare it to a major scale. Going up the scale, a melodic minor and a major scale are exactly the same with the exception of the third note of the scale. The third note of the scale is a half step lower for a melodic minor scale. So ascending, same as a major, only the third note of the scale is a half step lower. Now, when we're coming back down the scale, the sixth and seventh step of the scale are lowered, coming back down the scale, lowered by a half step. So we could think about this all in finger patterns. And at some level, we do. But really, doing the melodic minor scale, it's something you have to get in your ear and really work and practice to hear what's happening with the melodic scale, minor scale. And then the finger patterns start laying down to your fingers quite nicely. Let me start by showing you a one octave melodic minor scale. Here's what we're going to do. We're first going to show you an A major scale, which we've done, a one octave A major scale, three, four finger pattern on two strings. Then we're going to change it to an ascending melodic minor scale, where only the third step of the scale has been changed. And then when I come back down the scale, you'll see the sixth and seventh steps of the scale move down by a half step. What ends up happening for the melodic minor is on the way up the scale, it's a two, three finger pattern on the G string, and then a three, four finger pattern on the D string. Coming back down, it's a one, two finger pattern on the D string and a two, three finger pattern on the G string. A melodic minor ascending, melodic minor descending, one octave scale. Now for the three octave melodic minor scale, I use the same shifting patterns that I use for the major scale. Only the finger patterns are different. And I'm not going to outline all of those finger patterns right now. You'll need to work those out. But the shifting patterns remain the same. So let me just go ahead and demonstrate an A melodic minor three octave scale for you.