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However, the notes in ragas may not go straight up and down, may not be the same coming down as they were going up, and also some notes may have a tendency to be played in a certain manner or resolving to a certain other note. A raga is not often found in Western music, and is sort of an improvisational or melodic device consisting of a group of notes that go up and another that come down. Ragas and Indian traditional music: As for your question about ragas which are completely different up and down, it is worth noting that ragas and scales are not quite the same thing. That's because the behavior of the minor third is to rise to the major third, and that behavior is usually not found in reverse. However, in modern use (i.e., jazz) the Melodic minor is also normally played the same up and down.īlues scales: in the event that you are adding a major third to a scale with a minor third in the blues context, it is not unreasonable to always play the minor third first followed by the major third, for both ascending and descending versions of the scale. This had to do with voice-leading conventions of that time, and also accommodating singers who may during warmup struggle to find the flat third on the way down from an otherwise major scale. Melodic Minor: there is an exception for the traditional Melodic minor, which would be a major scale with a flatted third on ascent, but turn into a standard minor scale (aeolian mode) on descent. In other words, the scale will ascend from lowest to highest and descend from highest to lowest, without reversing direction until reaching either the highest or lowest note. In addition, for the most part scales are played in purely up and then purely down order, with no leaping about. This fits the definition you probably learned first.

Western music scales: The majority of scales in Western music are exactly the same up and down, and in this sense you can think of a "scale" as a structure of notes arranged from lowest to highest, and one which is most usually the same ascending and descending.