Harmonic Minor Madness!
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harmonic minor is pretty cool ain't it?
been getting into harmonic minor a lot lately for the exotic stuff cuzza the big one-and-a-half step interval with the little half-steps on either side. Great for Indian, Arabic, Persian, Oriental sounding lines. And neo-classical, too, but it's more than just the "Yngwie scale."
Learning it has helped me realize that the "tone" we spend so much time chasing often has a lot more to do with what music we choose to play. The sound of this scale seems to give me a better tone -- as if I never realized before that the "tone" I've been searching for has actually been the "music" I've been searching for....sounds weird, but do ya know what I mean? This scale has really opened doors for me and allowed me to be a lot happier with my "tone." Tone ~= sonic personality of a scale/mode as much or more as tone ~= strings/pups/wood/amp/speakers.
This has been your moment of zen.
I will have to listen to yer stuff when I get to work on Monday where I have a faster connection.
harmonic minor is pretty cool ain't it?
been getting into harmonic minor a lot lately for the exotic stuff cuzza the big one-and-a-half step interval with the little half-steps on either side. Great for Indian, Arabic, Persian, Oriental sounding lines. And neo-classical, too, but it's more than just the "Yngwie scale."
Learning it has helped me realize that the "tone" we spend so much time chasing often has a lot more to do with what music we choose to play. The sound of this scale seems to give me a better tone -- as if I never realized before that the "tone" I've been searching for has actually been the "music" I've been searching for....sounds weird, but do ya know what I mean? This scale has really opened doors for me and allowed me to be a lot happier with my "tone." Tone ~= sonic personality of a scale/mode as much or more as tone ~= strings/pups/wood/amp/speakers.
This has been your moment of zen.
I will have to listen to yer stuff when I get to work on Monday where I have a faster connection.
Re: Harmonic Minor Madness!
Pat Martino uses just about every type of minor scale you could dream of in his improvisational technique. He created a method he called "Minor Conversion" were he found he could play different variations of minor scales no matter what chord was he was playing against.
Once you start to learn about chord substitutions then minor conversion will be easier to understand. Here are some clips so you can see the results he gets out of this appoach:
Concerts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CbRSQtOms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7nOO6Lifo8
Here he shows how to use the minor scales of multiple substitutions of a single given chord:
Creative Force (instructional video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duDncVOQ1Jo
Quantum Guitar (instructional video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dur8uocnBY
The instructional videos are boring as hell to watch but they hold a wealth of information. I personally don't use a scalar approach to improvisation per se. But if I have to revert to scalar methods then I would much prefer Mr. Martino's Minor Conversion approach over traditional modal methods because I feel his method yields better results.
Pat Martino uses just about every type of minor scale you could dream of in his improvisational technique. He created a method he called "Minor Conversion" were he found he could play different variations of minor scales no matter what chord was he was playing against.
Once you start to learn about chord substitutions then minor conversion will be easier to understand. Here are some clips so you can see the results he gets out of this appoach:
Concerts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CbRSQtOms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7nOO6Lifo8
Here he shows how to use the minor scales of multiple substitutions of a single given chord:
Creative Force (instructional video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duDncVOQ1Jo
Quantum Guitar (instructional video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dur8uocnBY
The instructional videos are boring as hell to watch but they hold a wealth of information. I personally don't use a scalar approach to improvisation per se. But if I have to revert to scalar methods then I would much prefer Mr. Martino's Minor Conversion approach over traditional modal methods because I feel his method yields better results.
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Re: Harmonic Minor Madness!
I use a very cool pentatonic version of harmonic minor. Very jammin blues tool! Rip this over the V chord:
1 - 5
1 - 4
2 - 3
1 - 3
1 - 3
1 - 5
1 = 1st position root note, like the 1st for penta blues. Scale shown would be F pentatonic harmonic minor, or the 5 chord in a Bb blues
I use a very cool pentatonic version of harmonic minor. Very jammin blues tool! Rip this over the V chord:
1 - 5
1 - 4
2 - 3
1 - 3
1 - 3
1 - 5
1 = 1st position root note, like the 1st for penta blues. Scale shown would be F pentatonic harmonic minor, or the 5 chord in a Bb blues
