Harmonic minors use the relative major key signature and raise the seventh note of the scale. For example, in A harmonic minor there are no sharps or flats other than the raised seventh of G#.

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The reason for this is because the E7 features a G# note, the Major 7th in the key of A minor. Our A minor pentatonic and A natural minor scales by contrast feature a b7th interval, or G natural.