The chart below show you the seven chords built from each degree of the melodic minor scale.
Degrees
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
C melodic minor scale
C
D
Eb
F
G
A
B
Triad chords
Cm
Dm
Ebaug
F
G
Adim
Bdim
Seventh chords
CminMaj7
Dmin7
EbMaj7#5
F7
G7
A-7b5
B-7b5
Melodic Minor Scale Harmonized With Triads
The third row of the table show the triad chords built with three notes stacked in thirds starting from each degree of the melodic minor scale.
You can see two minor chords on degrees I & II, one augmented chord on degree III, two major chords on degrees IV & V and two diminished triads on degrees VI & VII.
Melodic Minor Scale Harmonized With Seventh Chords
By adding a fourth note to the previous triads you get :
One minMaj7 chord on degree I,
One minor seventh chords (min7) on the degree II,
One major seventh sharp five (maj7#5) chord on the third degree,
Two dominant 7th chords (7) on the degrees IV & V
Two minor seventh flat fifth chords (m7b5) on degrees VI & VII.
Melodic Minor Chord Shapes
The diagrams below show the seven shapes related to the seven tetrad chords built from each degree of the harmonic minor scale.
Every chord correspond to a color code and the root of each chord is represented by a triangle.
Red form : minMaj7
Green : min7
Blue : Maj7#5
Pink : dom7
Brown : dom7
Orange : m7b5
Purple : m7b5
Drop 2 Chord Voicings
The chords of the three diagrams below are drop 2 voiced
minMaj7
1 5 7 b3
min7
1 5 b7 b3
Maj7#5
1 #5 7 3
Dom7
1 5 b7 3
Dom7
1 5 b7 3
m7b5
1 b5 b7 b3
m7b5
1 b5 b7 b3
Drop 3 Chord Voicings
The chords of the two guitar neck diagrams below are drop 3 voiced
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