In today's guitar lesson we check out how to write music and chord progressions in harmonic minor - we look at how to write in a key and how the chords in harmonic minor are constructed. Let me know if you have any questions about this tutorial!
I think we make it more complicated than it has to be. For example, I thought harmonic-minor was some mysterious scale I'd never grasp. Then I realized it's almost a major and minor scale combined. Typical minor scale with a raised 7th. The point of raising the 7th is to create a stronger pull back to the tonic note, which is usually a chord tone of the V. You can really hear the raised 7th of the V7 pull if you play a ii V7 i progression. For example play the progression F#min7b5, B7, Emin The Dorian mode is very similar. It is a minor scale with a raised or augmented 6th. If I recall correctly.
Chrod construction seems to me to be everything. Even if you can shred, if you can't write a song that is catchy and clever, shredding just seems like your practicing scales which is not musical.. I'm old 58, and I see loads of great shredders on YT, but few that can write a song. Love harmonic minor. The 7th is the key. Randy Rhodes was so great at using the harmonic minor. Great lesson. Sehr gutt meine frunde. Ich lernon duetche langsom. 😂
Thank you that was super great man- extremely generous of you, I’ve been looking for a video like this for awhile - couldn’t find just something simple on the chords of the harmonic minor scale degrees- such an obvious and necessary thing that wasn’t anywhere! And I love how you seem like you’re covering advanced and sophisticated material in a clear and beginner’s way. Nice job man. The notes on fingers is f’in genius.
It is fantastic Bernth, as soon as you started playing the chords...i just heard one of my favourite musician because of the magic of his musical universe and creativity, originality : Mister Allan Holdsworth !!!!! In fact thinking as you say that the minor harmonic scale is just the aeolian which has its 7th degree "up" is so cool !!! I had "mental bricks" before and didn't dare working it ...now i know i can !!! Thanks so much, Bernth, you have liberate my mind from my "musical complex" !!!!!
Cool Man it ' s been years i have been psychologically " terrorized " by the minor harmonic and its chords progression...now everything has "moved" by watching your vidéo and only within 5 mn !!!! Learning, apprehending difficulties and finally finding its "resoution " by complete chance is so much strange that it belongs to something else than us...simple human beings ... Thanks again Bernth (but i still do not listen to Metal music !!!! Lol)
Hey Randy, great that you noticed! I always like to place the tensions on top (especially for a demonstration of the sound) so the color of the characteristic note is well defined :) Glad you like that voicing!
Basic chord triads are just every other note...NO MATTER the scale. but you dont have to stack it every other note.. Such as the lydian #2. you could stack it.1, #2, 5 ( min/maj7 or 1, #2, #4, 6 ( full diminished) You'll get used to it....the 2, 4, b6, 7 degree are all possible full diminished becuase they're SYMMETRICAL The b3, 5, 7 are all possible AUGMENTED C, E, G# So you could stack the Loc b4, bb7.....1, b4, b6 or Loc Maj6 as half or full diminished. or Phrygian dominant 1, 3, b6 It's going to OVER LAP with C HARMONIC MAJOR ( ion b6) C, E, Ab. It's a different scale...but people use them more than you think. Lydian b3......or F, Ab, B, D F min G7 into C MAJOR or C min The trick is to play A lydian b3...So you could play B Mix b2 ( B7 into E MAJOR or E min) instead of using the A double Harmonic min.... It's going to HELP YOU with the A Melodic min ...or the G# loc b4 becuase Jazz head likes to alter that to 1, b4, b7 ( Dominant) So you could play G# phrygian b4 into C# min or E MAJOR.. It'll help you get used to going from C MAJOR to C melodic min ( ion b3) So you could play C Maj F min G7 into C min D min or dim...E7 into A MAJOR Then B min C#7 or augmented..D min or dim E7 into A min again if you want.. These PARALLEL scale HELPS make KEY shifting SMOOTHER...
I'm glad to have found you. I also studied music in Hamburg and I think your videos are very informative which I really appreciate. There are so few capable guitarists on RUclips who have a clue and can explain the theory correctly. mostonly nonsense talk about that. It's also nice to find people who really know about the matter. I just wanted to tell you LG from Hamburg ich bin froh darüber Dich gefunden zu haben. ich habe ebenfalls Musik studiert in Hamburg und ich finde deine Videos sind sehr informativ gehalten was ich sehr schätze. es gibt so wenig fähige Gitarristen auf RUclips die Ahnung haben und die Theorie Aspekte richtig erklären können. die meisten davon reden nur Blödsinn. es ist auch schön , Leute zu finden die wirklich Ahnung von der Materie haben. das wollte ich dir einfach mal mitteilen LG aus Hamburg
I did I was like wait a minute they are just assigning names to intervals and combining them into other names inversing other intervals or adding some other inetrval and calling them some other thing... that's not that difficult
Brav i cant explain how lucky i am to find your channel. This video just opend a great chordal lock inside me. Plz keep your vids coming. Keep up the good work man.
Hello there! I know it's already been 3 years since this video was published. I wanted to know if over those given chords, for the A harmonic minor key, I can play the Dm7 harmonic minor scale. Or do I have to construct the chords for these scale (Dm7) adding the third, fifth and seventh, as well ?
Hey Erron! For the take in the video I used a bit of reverb and delay to add an atmospheric touch to the chords - for me personally it's all about the notes and their function though. There is an eerie sound to the tonic (Aminmaj7 - a minor chord with a major seventh!) and the Cmaj7#5 chord comes quite unexpected too (even more effective with the #5 placed on top in this voicing), for my ears at least :) So I would say experiment with different cadences/chords first before going for the effects!
@@Bernthguitar Ach so.. ich bin aus São Paulo Brasilien, ich kann auch Deutsch = ) Bitte such das video hier "Guitarra encontrada no lixo" das bin ich = )
Nice to get something different, would have liked to have seen the chords showing the complete chord scale with fret numbers all on a pdf screen shot. Ho almost forgot, WTF is the mad crazy guitar
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In today's guitar lesson we check out how to write music and chord progressions in harmonic minor - we look at how to write in a key and how the chords in harmonic minor are constructed. Let me know if you have any questions about this tutorial!
Thank you so much!
Thanks..you're a great teacher.
Thanks very much! I can make intelligent chord progressions now 👍
OMG ! Why hasn't someone done this before ?? Show the notes over the hand voicings for each chord !! Brilliant and SO useful ! Thank you thank you !!
Classically trained guitarists that can actually translate complex theory the way you do is really quite the rarity. You are a treasure.
I think we make it more complicated than it has to be. For example, I thought harmonic-minor was some mysterious scale I'd never grasp. Then I realized it's almost a major and minor scale combined. Typical minor scale with a raised 7th. The point of raising the 7th is to create a stronger pull back to the tonic note, which is usually a chord tone of the V. You can really hear the raised 7th of the V7 pull if you play a ii V7 i progression. For example play the progression F#min7b5, B7, Emin
The Dorian mode is very similar. It is a minor scale with a raised or augmented 6th. If I recall correctly.
That was awesome I've just started fooling around with D Harmonic Minor because I'm in Drop D. Thanks for the tips!
Chrod construction seems to me to be everything. Even if you can shred, if you can't write a song that is catchy and clever, shredding just seems like your practicing scales which is not musical.. I'm old 58, and I see loads of great shredders on YT, but few that can write a song.
Love harmonic minor. The 7th is the key.
Randy Rhodes was so great at using the harmonic minor.
Great lesson. Sehr gutt meine frunde. Ich lernon duetche langsom. 😂
Thank you that was super great man- extremely generous of you, I’ve been looking for a video like this for awhile - couldn’t find just something simple on the chords of the harmonic minor scale degrees- such an obvious and necessary thing that wasn’t anywhere! And I love how you seem like you’re covering advanced and sophisticated material in a clear and beginner’s way. Nice job man. The notes on fingers is f’in genius.
I started playing them chords last night and man they are hard! You make it sound so clean and look so easy I have my charts and keep trying!
What a mind blowing🤯!!! I loved those chords!! And that point of AmMaj7 replacing Am or Am7 .....Gosh!!!
Simply Amazing!
It is fantastic Bernth, as soon as you started playing the chords...i just heard one of my favourite musician because of the magic of his musical universe and creativity, originality : Mister Allan Holdsworth !!!!!
In fact thinking as you say that the minor harmonic scale is just the aeolian which has its 7th degree "up" is so cool !!! I had "mental bricks" before and didn't dare working it ...now i know i can !!!
Thanks so much, Bernth, you have liberate my mind from my "musical complex" !!!!!
Cool Man it ' s been years i have been psychologically " terrorized " by the minor harmonic and its chords progression...now everything has "moved" by watching your vidéo and only within 5 mn !!!!
Learning, apprehending difficulties and finally finding its "resoution " by complete chance is so much strange that it belongs to something else than us...simple human beings ...
Thanks again Bernth (but i still do not listen to Metal music !!!! Lol)
Fredrik Throdendal takes alot of inspiration from Allan Holdsworth.
Been stuck in a plateau for a long time. Thanks for helping me finally break through
Another great lesson from a great guitarist-glad I found you-THANKYOU for sharing your knowledge
I like the voicing you chose for the Maj7#5, that is different than i would've done, and sounds more open voiced in a way.
Hey Randy, great that you noticed! I always like to place the tensions on top (especially for a demonstration of the sound) so the color of the characteristic note is well defined :) Glad you like that voicing!
@@Bernthguitar That's awesome! I should explore that.
Basic chord triads are just every other note...NO MATTER the scale.
but you dont have to stack it every other note..
Such as the lydian #2. you could stack it.1, #2, 5 ( min/maj7 or 1, #2, #4, 6 ( full diminished)
You'll get used to it....the 2, 4, b6, 7 degree are all possible full diminished becuase they're SYMMETRICAL
The b3, 5, 7 are all possible AUGMENTED C, E, G#
So you could stack the Loc b4, bb7.....1, b4, b6 or Loc Maj6 as half or full diminished.
or Phrygian dominant 1, 3, b6
It's going to OVER LAP with C HARMONIC MAJOR ( ion b6) C, E, Ab.
It's a different scale...but people use them more than you think.
Lydian b3......or F, Ab, B, D
F min G7 into C MAJOR or C min
The trick is to play A lydian b3...So you could play B Mix b2 ( B7 into E MAJOR or E min)
instead of using the A double Harmonic min....
It's going to HELP YOU with the A Melodic min ...or the G# loc b4
becuase Jazz head likes to alter that to 1, b4, b7 ( Dominant)
So you could play G# phrygian b4 into C# min or E MAJOR..
It'll help you get used to going from C MAJOR to C melodic min ( ion b3)
So you could play C Maj F min G7 into C min D min or dim...E7 into A MAJOR
Then B min C#7 or augmented..D min or dim E7 into A min again if you want..
These PARALLEL scale HELPS make KEY shifting SMOOTHER...
Please, can you explain me more?
Thank you for this wonderful lesson, you are inspirational
Awesome video!
Cheers from Portugal 🍺🤘🇵🇹
In a world full of "uneducational material" without wisdom, your work is pure 'F***in' A'!!! Just keep on,keepin' on my friend.. \m/
Very clear thanks
I'm glad to have found you. I also studied music in Hamburg and I think your videos are very informative which I really appreciate. There are so few capable guitarists on RUclips who have a clue and can explain the theory correctly. mostonly nonsense talk about that. It's also nice to find people who really know about the matter. I just wanted to tell you LG from Hamburg
ich bin froh darüber Dich gefunden zu haben. ich habe ebenfalls Musik studiert in Hamburg und ich finde deine Videos sind sehr informativ gehalten was ich sehr schätze. es gibt so wenig fähige Gitarristen auf RUclips die Ahnung haben und die Theorie Aspekte richtig erklären können. die meisten davon reden nur Blödsinn. es ist auch schön , Leute zu finden die wirklich Ahnung von der Materie haben. das wollte ich dir einfach mal mitteilen LG aus Hamburg
Vielen Dank für deinen netten Kommentar, schön dich hier dabei zu haben Maik! 🙂🤘🏻
@@Bernthguitar 😀🤘🤘
I did I was like wait a minute they are just assigning names to intervals and combining them into other names inversing other intervals or adding some other inetrval and calling them some other thing... that's not that difficult
You're amazing!! Thank you so much lml
Wow, so glad to find this channel. Super lessons
Bro You're awesome with the lessons!
Thank you 🌷 bless to you
Holy hell this helps so much 🙏🙏
Amazing
Awesome,I have always just played without understand what I was doing
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Great! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!!!
Brav i cant explain how lucky i am to find your channel. This video just opend a great chordal lock inside me. Plz keep your vids coming. Keep up the good work man.
Thank you 👍😊
Thx for sharing! quite good video.
Didn't know about the g# and love your t-shirt
hi bro i m from India..i m big fan of u...
thank you so much man :)
Thanks bro! Keep making this videos please
Absolutely, I'll keep them coming on a weekly basis! :)
Grüße aus München!
Hello there! I know it's already been 3 years since this video was published.
I wanted to know if over those given chords, for the A harmonic minor key, I can play the Dm7 harmonic minor scale. Or do I have to construct the chords for these scale (Dm7) adding the third, fifth and seventh, as well ?
how you get such a beautiful sound on your guitar?
Thanks alot forgive me a dark sound on my guitar😈🤘👍🖤❤
TOP! T.You
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Yes I must say my dude is a true God among mortal men,we are not worthy 😎🤯😎
Does it require a specific pedal or something to give that more depressive suicidal tone?
Thanks.
Hey Erron! For the take in the video I used a bit of reverb and delay to add an atmospheric touch to the chords - for me personally it's all about the notes and their function though. There is an eerie sound to the tonic (Aminmaj7 - a minor chord with a major seventh!) and the Cmaj7#5 chord comes quite unexpected too (even more effective with the #5 placed on top in this voicing), for my ears at least :) So I would say experiment with different cadences/chords first before going for the effects!
@@Bernthguitar absolutely goin for dem chords first.
Thanks for that great in depth lesson and thank you so much for replying ❤️❤️
Thank you.This was really helpful.
I love your lessons dude, where are u from?
Thank you very much! Vienna, Austria :)
@@Bernthguitar Ach so.. ich bin aus São Paulo Brasilien, ich kann auch Deutsch = ) Bitte such das video hier "Guitarra encontrada no lixo" das bin ich = )
Sir your lesson please explain 🙏
If Adam Jones knew this
Nice to get something different, would have liked to have seen the chords showing the complete chord scale with fret numbers all on a pdf screen shot. Ho almost forgot, WTF is the mad crazy guitar
Why do C major and Aminor so different even they are made up of same notes
H.R. Giger. 🤞
When your tats make your teeshirt look like a long sleeve.
amazing