wow..my mind has been blown

[dmandude123455]

today at my guitar lesson i learned the harmonic minor scale. As me and my teacher jammed he told me to blend the pentatonic and the harmonic scales together for a solo and I as i was doing it, i thought to myself...this is what it feels like to really play...wow. I made my guitar SING. i was so happy so for the next 8 hours im gonna be playing these scales together till my fingers bleed!

 

[elscorcho]

Re: wow..my mind has been blown

I love how it has an "arabic" flavor....

 

[GoDrex]

Re: wow..my mind has been blown

that's cool - it's a great feeling when something like that really clicks

 

[Gamera]

Re: wow..my mind has been blown

you've just learned Yngwie's formula.

 

[dmandude123455]

Re: wow..my mind has been blown

yea i know lol, now that i can kinda do what he does i find it not as intense.
what scale does mr.vh use? i know he does alot of pent stuff but what else does he use?? :>

 

[GoDrex]

Re: wow..my mind has been blown

harmonic minor and natural minor can sound cool over a jazz progression, like this:

D half-diminished minor 7th

G 7

C m7

you can play a C minor scale over this and do C harmonic minor over the G 7 and D half-diminished minor 7th.

harmonic minor works in this case because the G 7 would normally be a minor chord but in this case it's major.

 

[Jay 77]

Re: wow..my mind has been blown

yea i know lol, now that i can kinda do what he does i find it not as intense.
what scale does mr.vh use? i know he does alot of pent stuff but what else does he use?? :>

Not sure of the scales, but I read a quote from him once that said he always tries to simplify and use only two fingers whenever he can. I found that it made playing the easier stuff (early albums - not including solos) much better.

 

[tone4days]

Re: wow..my mind has been blown

D half-diminished minor 7th

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many times this is written as simply D-7b5 - a little less cumbersomeway to say the same thing

 

[ericmeyer4]

Re: wow..my mind has been blown

Harmonic and the penatonic. I might have to try that.

 

[everdrone]

Re: wow..my mind has been blown

you've just learned Yngwie's formula.

yea i know lol, now that i can kinda do what he does i find it not as intense.
what scale does mr.vh use? i know he does alot of pent stuff but what else does he use?? :>

ya each of teh greats has a secret scale that they use :cool2: hendrix uses teh experienced scalez

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: wow..my mind has been blown

Awesome! Knowledge is power! Keep up the hard work!

 

[Frantic_Rock]

Re: wow..my mind has been blown

Awesome dude.

Now learn the other 6 modes of the harmonic minor scale!! And your mind will get blown 6 more times!!! They are wicked sounds.
http://www.unlimitedlessons.com/content/harmonic-minor-modes

The mode names:
Harmonic Minor, Locrian Sharp 6, Ionian Sharp 5, Dorian Sharp 4, Phrygian Dominant, Lydian Sharp 2, and Super Locrian bb7


Also try the melodic minor - it has that spicy Sharp 7 but doesn't have that wide interval leap from the Flat 6 to the Sharp 7 that makes the harmonic minor so classical sounding.