Thanks for your always clear and to the point tutelage. When I was young the good players would turn their back on us young we had to pick it up from our ears and glimpses seen, even the gear was magical secrets. Music teachers would teach the rock n roll scale, learned more from the violin
Thank you, David 🤘🤘🤘 Very helpful to this GenX bass and guitar player... slowly things come together. Appreciate the lesson in harmonizing the scale Be good to you 🤘🤘🤘
Fantastic Lesson, David! So easy to understand in A Harmonic Minor! I love the 7th Chords Chart, but there's no "Sharp" symbol, after the capital G. Luckily, the chart and scale are so easy to keep track of (just one sharp G#), that it's still very helpful!
Alex Lifeson's solo in Rush's YYZ is in E harmonic minor. The backing chords are B major and C major, the chords built on the fifth and sixth degrees of the E harmonic minor scale. So I guess we could say he's playing in a mode of E harmonic minor.
I live at the corner of Phrygian dominant and arpeggio lane. Written a lot of harmonic minor material, I like expressing those deep feelings that scale provides. Cheers to all! Go practice everyone. Great video.
@@aquabot - That chord is very similiar, but that one is technically an Em(maj9). Such a cool chord! Be sure to check out my Chordplay episode "Big Chords" - the James Bond chord is hiding in there somewhere. ROCK ON! : )
Hey Dave! Have you ever checked out Chastain especially the album “for those who dare” classic shred from early 80’s with Leather Leon on vocals.. great album and he uses the Harmonic minor a lot
Great lesson David! If you ever get time or are stuck for lesson ideas, it would be cool to see a lesson on the fast legato-picking combination you use for your scale playing at 3:30. I notice you do it quite a lot. It sounds very fluid.
This is "trickier" then it looks. Get it, "Trick Or Treat".... huh huh? That album up there in the corner with the girl holding that Strat in the flames is a masterpiece btw.
i guess that b can be half or full diminished, since it has the flat 7 and double flat 7 in it for the 2 chord, when you did the f to the e, my brain heard wait by white lion lol
LATE NIGHT, try to make a Ritchie Blackmore harmonic minor and double harmonic minor licks lessons. He used the double harmonic scale in live rainbow albums which they have about 6 different live concerts. In deep purple they would vamp over one or 2 chords jams while Blackmore would improvise using harmonic minor licks
When you lay these particular chords over the scale, every one of each chord's notes is in the A Harmonic Minor Scale. In A Natural Minor, there is a C Major chord with the 3 notes: C E G When you play in A Harmonic Minor, you replace the normal G (found in the A Natural Minor scale) with G#. Now the G (a perfect fifth from the root C) in that C Major chord is out of key and you need to use G# (one half-step up in pitch from G Natural), instead. G# is an Augmented Fifth from the root C. The chord is now C Augmented: C E G#
Here is something I do with almost every riff I learn and it's how to learn the chords in any key or mode (but you have to know the scale in all positions first). Take a chord or a riff, and move each note up (or down, not both) one note, but always in the same key or mode you started in. You've now learned how to play all seven diatonic chords in that key/mode, or with licks, you learn how to play them in all seven modes. This can be done in any exotic keys too. Remember, these shapes are all moveable and so they can be used for different keys/modes. It depends on the tonality dictated by the root note (the "tonic").
@@aylbdrmadison1051 Thanks! I hope so. Cool diatonic chord alteration method you described (by moving one chord note up or down to the next scale note)! I'd like to try that while improvising! And also while practicing (I'm a little weak on my shifting chord notes game).
If you haven't yet, just learn all seven positions (shapes) of C Major/A minor. It's only seven shapes total, and they can be moved around to create a total of 84 scales: all seven modes in all 12 keys. Once you know those seven shapes, the rest becomes so much easier, and exotic scales like this just one note in the scale changed (harmonic minor just has the seventh note of the normal minor scale, raised one fret higher. You got this!
So one of 2 things is happening here. Either your recording system sucks, or your amp sounds like crap. It's to grungy. I'm not trying to be an ass I'm aiming for helping you get better. The clean stuff you play sounds good but the stuff right at the beginning sounds like some cheap amp played by someone who just started using an electric setup.
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