Chewing on this lesson a little at a time. We're in the expensive harmonies and melodies here! 😅 There is a wealth of knowledge here to anyone willing to put the time in! Thank you, Korey!!
Corey I think you missed the most important thing when do you play this melodic minor scale I say you played over a dominant seven chord just go half step above the root of a dominant seven and play that melodic minor and that the best use of it other than that when would you play me?
Yes, but I usually hand out the shortcuts after students get the patterns down ☺️. But I found over the years as if you tell this to students first, they never learn the whole fret board of the melodic minor! They just go half step and play whatever ever in that part of the neck.
Bill Leavitt fingerings from (Berklee) Modern Method. There is a ton of logic to it because each finger controls only one fret, and the economy of motion is actually greater. If you are used to three notes per string patterns, it can be weird, but having done both I can tell you these are far better, especially for memorizing the whole neck as one continuous pattern and for sight reading. These are essentially all the major scale patterns I’ve been teaching in the other videos for the 588 patterns of major and it’s 84 modes and you just make one adjustment to get melodic minor. It’s easier in the long run, but not easier at first. When we memorize scales, we are memorizing them with the mind and the ear, and then apply muscle memory. I find some students all they care about is how fast they can play a scale and they’re not even thinking of what intervals the scale is against the chord, which is a shame, completely wasting the purpose of practicing scales in the first place. If you can play the altered scale super fast, but can’t find the b9 when you need it, what’s the point?
