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.

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then drop the second string down a semitone to a Bb – that’s the all-important minor 3rd in the key of G. Though not as commonplace as its major counterpart, G minor tuning is used in many son ...