E Melodic Minor Scale — Concert Ukulele

The E Melodic Minor scale has 7 notes per octave and belongs to the common family. Here it is mapped onto the Concert Ukulele's GCEA strings, position by position, with the root highlighted so the pattern anchors to E wherever you play it.

Minor at the bottom, major at the top — the b3 keeps it minor while the natural 6 and 7 lift the upper half into a smooth climb home. Bittersweet rather than dark, with a polished, modern-jazz sheen.

Heard in: Jazz lines over minor and altered chords, film scoring, and classical melodies rising to the tonic — Bach, Mozart, and bebop alike.

Reentrant tuning means the top string of the chart is not the lowest note — the maps below follow the Concert Ukulele as it actually sounds, not a borrowed guitar chart.

Play each position slowly against the audio until the shape and the sound lock together, then take it to the progressions in E to use it over real changes.