Harmonic Minor Strategies

Practice singing the harmonic minor scale using a strategy of your choice.  Three strategies are provided below. The Movable Do solfege system uses the singing syllables starting on La (the sixth scale degree of the relative major scale), the Scale Degree system uses numbers and the Fixed Do solfege system has the first scale degree considered as Do.   

Notice where the semitones fall. 

Moveable Do:  Ti - Do, Mi - Fa and Si (raised So) - La

Scale Degrees: 2 - flat 3, 5 - flat 6 and 7 - 8

Fixed Do: Re - Me (flattened Mi), So - Le (flattened La) and Ti - Do   

* HINT -  The methods here will make an impression on how you feel the sounds and their patterns in the scales.  Keep repeating these strategies until this happens.  Eventually it will click!