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Lately, I’ve been having a good time talking about minor keys, scales, and chords! And today, I’m going to show you how to actually use one of the minor scales we’ve been talking about in real-life situations.
Theory is great! It helps you to understand the “what” and “why” behind things. But I’m going to show you how it also allows you to systemically pick what scales to improvise with over certain progressions. It’s not guesswork. There’s actually systems behind a lot of it…
I promised you that I’d cover the seventh chords of the harmonic minor scale next so here we go!
First, let’s review how we came up with the triads. We started with our C harmonic minor scale (which is essentially the same as the natural minor scale except that the 7th tone is raised a half step).
Lately we’ve been talking about minor scales. Yesterday, I introduced the harmonic minor scale and how easy it is to play when you know your natural minor scales.
Today, I’ll go a step further and teach you how to form the melodic minor scale.
So by now, you’re probably familiar with how to create minor scales. When I say “minor scale,” I’m usually talking about the natural minor scale (the most common). Sometimes, the “natural” part makes all the difference when you’re differentiating between other types of minor scales like the “harmonic” and “melodic.”
And that’s exactly what I want to talk about today… the harmonic minor scale.
Yesterday, I posted 4 new instructional clips from our new salsa course.
Because I was sitting in a conference session, I didn’t have much time to talk about the clips — so what I want to do today is actually break down my favorite of the four…
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