The scale tone chords derived from the A melodic minor scale are shown below. Because of the sharpened 6th degree, there will be more changes to the types of chords derived from this scale.
Chord 2 is now minor instead of major, chord 4 is major instead of minor and chord 6 is diminished instead of major. These changes are all brought about by the raising of the 6th degree of the scale from F to F#.
The following example is derived from the A melodic minor scale tone chords shown above. It also contains one chromatic note (A# or Bb) as part of a repeating bass run.
When playing music in minor keys, it is common to use chords from all three types of minor scales. A good example of this is the song "House of the Rising Sun", which is written in ) time and shown below as an arpeggio style accompaniment. Notice the use of bass runs once again. Look through the chords and see which ones come from each type of minor scale. Once you can play it, transpose it to several other keys.
This is the six eight time signature.
There are six eighth notes in one bar of ) time.
The six eighth notes are divided into two groups of three.