This is Why Melodic Minor Is Awesome
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- Опубликовано: 1 июл 2024
- Melodic minor is an awesome sound! It is a really beautiful rich minor sound. But sometimes we immediately get lost in Altered scale, Lydian dominant, Locrian Natural 2, etc and that is a pity because the tonic minor sound is certainly worth exploring.
In this video I am going to show you how to start using it, some of the things you can use to make lines and also how you can use it to get into some other great melodic minor sounds on other chords.
There are many things you can study in the melodic minor scale. This playlist will give you plenty of examples of melodic minor licks.
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Content:
0:00 Intro - The Tonic Minor Sound
0:25 Start with a Basic Version
0:50 Hearing the sound in the chords - Relating it to a song
1:20 What is a Tonic Minor Chord?
1:46 How It is built into Autumn Leaves
2:00 The Scale (The way we use it in Jazz🙂 )
2:35 "Jazz Minor" and Classical Melodic Minor
3:26 Exploring the Harmony
3:45 Diatonic Triads
4:14 Diatonic 7th Chords
4:49 Finding Arpeggios to Use
5:53 Putting it into 3 Jazz Licks
8:13 Same Material for Altered and Lydian Dominants
8:59 Example 1 - Altered Scale
9:46 Example 2 - Lydian Dominant
10:52 What is your favourite arpeggio to use?
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I call it “sneaky jazz.” Like when someone is sneaking around stealthily in a movie lol
This is my Sunday morning covered off, thanks Jens 🎸
From Japan, You are the Best online teacher I have ever seen. Not only for guitar playing but also speaking English.
Jazz minor is awesome and jazz mentor too. Jens , you should make original material. Best jazz teacher online by far. Thank you for all that precious knowledge.
Glad you like it 🙂 👍 Melodic minor is indeed beautiful
mellowdick
Thanks, Jens! Melodic Minor has such a classy, sophisticated flavor. I love it!
Thank you 🙂
Every one of your vids shows me a new way of looking at things, Jens.
I had previously heard the half-diminished sound in it, but didn’t recognize the relationships/application as you demonstrated.
Funny how modes and scales play different roles, serving different melodic goals, as applied to jazz harmony!
Thank you!
THANKS JENS!!! The clearer and easiest explanation of melodic classical vs melodic jazz. Always spot on. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
I just spent there entire afternoon for this incredible lesson. You're the only one capable of me doing this. My compliments and thanks!
Thank you, Jens! This lesson provides an incredible amount of information and ideas.
Thankyou, that was very helpful, been months trying to find a video in which I could feel into the minor melodic scale with a bit of easyness and I really found that in your video. Very funny how so naturally you just say things like : "so after the diminished arpeggio you just resolve on the 9th of the BMajor" Hahah that cracked me up I can tell you really have a lot of experience and vocabulary in your playing. Thank you a lot for your video!!
Glad it was helpful! 🙂
Best lesson on melodic minor I've come across here on RUclips! Now to get it into my ears! 😊 😊
Thank you fathand Robert I am glad you found it useful! 👍
Best explanations on usable jazz harmony I've seen - thank you!
Great lesson, Jens! This scale has such a beautiful and somehow mysterious sound. I often think of it in terms of tonic minor progressions, but also a half step below a V7 as the altered scale, and for some reason my ear really is driven to its use over a maj7#5 chord. Such a beautiful sound universe!
Thanks Zach! Yes a lot of great sounds in here :)
Its similar to whole tone scale
Really helpful. Addresses many of the questions I have been struggling a bit with. A good one for the long term study. Scott
Another great video! --- thanks Jens. The melodic minor and its modes, and minor chord progressions, can be extremely intimidating and mysterious to beginning/intermediate players. It takes a lot of study and practice and listening. Sometimes it gets so complex it becomes really frustrating. This really helps a lot.
Thanks for the lesson, Jens. Always interesting and useful.
You're amazing Jens! I learn lots of things from you.
Thank you Onur! Really glad to hear that!
Always a great and novel explorations on Jazz Galaxy with your lessons.
This is Great thanks, love the tabs on the bottom, it makes it so much easier to follow and understand
You're very welcome! Glad you like it!
such rich tonality...great lesson to kick off 2020...jens is a great teacher
Thanks. Glad you found it useful!
it is actually the 3rd video in 2020 :D
Man your videos are awesome. Now Im improvising over Autumm Leaves in Em, and the melodic minor over the dominant and the first degree minor sounds great.
Thanks!
Yes! That is really great to hear!!! :)
i like using melodic minor together with other minor scales (blues / dorian / bebop / gypsy). i love it because it puts almost every note in your wheelhouse :)
Thank you so much! I have just started to study this scale and I find it very difficult to make melodies in my head with it, but you sir got me covered with these great examples! Thanks a lot!
Glad to hear that Thomas!
thanks so much for this lesson and your channel overall! really nicely structured vids with comfortable length, tabs support, theory/practice balanced, etc etc, keep on, Jens)
Awesome material!!!! Thanks!!!! Don't have words to tell you how much do you have been helping me wirh this!!!!!! Thanks!!!!
You're very welcome, Martin! I am glad you like it! 🙂
I love it al. Thank you Jens. Wonderful colors !
Thank you Bruno!
Thanks Jens. I never could figure out how the scale could be useful for anything other than cheesy classical lines. But you showed realms upon the realms of sounds with this scale
Glad yo hear it Andrey! :)
Many congratulations on 300k Subs! You deserve more.
Miles makes great use of the melodic minor on his solo over Autumn Leaves with Cannonball Adderley. He toys with the maj6th over Root minor chord and it really lifts his improvisation to an intriguing place.
well Jens, i ve been criticiasing in one of your vidéo but i have to say it to you : I have found my jazz teacher !!!!! So greeaat Jens, i am happy to have met you.
Thank you Jens...
So many things to learn but pleasure makes forget any difficultiés for they are no more frustrations but joy to learn.
Amazing tutorial. Really clear. Love the gibson too it sounds sweet!
Thank you, Steve 🙂
Great work. Thank you very much Teacher
You are welcome!
I really dig the augmented triad because it is super easy to get the inversions out of it and the whole tone scale creates some nice runs as well. I have used them in jazz and metal. I really like your videos. Thanks for making them.
You're very welcome! I am glad you like them! 🙂
So that's what the vibe in the Cannonball Adderly/Miles Davis' version of Autumn Leaves was all about.I'll forever associate melodic minor with that.
Having a sound to associate it with is the way to go!
Great video! I enjoyed the second to last lick the most!
😊 me encanta .. gracias Jen gran trabajo
So glad to have discovered your channel. Very practical advice. Thank you.
You're very welcome! I am glad you like it! 🙂
Killer lesson JR; you're a great asset to the RUclips jazz guitar education community! 😎👍
Great videos, great guitar player. Thank you. Cheers from Argentina.
Jens, thank you so much for this. Very useful!
Thank you Dan! 🙂
Thank you Jens!! Your class are very clear!!
You're very welcome! Glad you like it!
Great instruction, SO MUCH THEORY!!!
This is incredibly insightful!!!! Thanks!!!
That was awesome. Thank you very much!
Awesome video Jens, you rock!
Thank you Lucas!
Great lesson. I have to admit to have largely neglected this scale, but now I have some exploring to do.
Go for it! :)
Excellent; thanks Jens.
I do like much this lesson/ I have already studied many of your Melodic minor lessons but everytime are kind of challenging and interesting to grab
Well Jens...i do not just know what to say about your vidéo about minor melodic scale...l' ve been knowing it for a long time but never found its "melodic" approach on chords and now, listening to you and your phrasing i can "hear" it.
It is for me a really great musical discovery and i can work it with fun and not boring tecnical manner...just playing musik (try...lol) with it, trying to "talk" by playing it.
I am happy...just so happy and I thank you Jens for having giving me that fantastic emotion which is i think the basis of playing : pleasure, sharing, listening....
I think Metheny would be proud of your musical approach !!!!!! And Pat is not a pet !!!! Lool
Te gek Jens! Dank voor de fijne uitleg.
Graag gedaan!
Another terrific lesson
Great video, Jens! Yeah, I have found melodic minor to be a gold mine. I like to use it over V7s.
Thank you Jack! It is indeed great for altered and lydian dominants!
Another great video thanks Jens. One arpeggio that I'm very much enjoying these days is the 7th b5. It sounds great in all contexts: B7b5 over B7 alt, F7 #11 and even the tonic Minor (C Min). What's even cooler, is that it's the only chord that i can think of that belongs to Melodic Minor, Diminished AND whole tone scale.
Thanks Lucas! Spot on that Dom7thb5 arpeggio is a great sound in so many places :)
The cool thing about melodic minor is that there are no “avoid” notes like in the major scale (ex: F in the key of C major). Any lick, scale or sequence you use over one of the chords in the key can be used over any of the other of the key’s chords.
Maybe it's because I never write in Ionian mode but why exactly wouldn't you want to play an F? It's just the fourth of the scale so it could be used as a sus4, maj11, passing note or even a pedal type effect for F Lydian (hell if you're thinking with the Lydian chromatic concept it's one of the most important notes). And obviously as the root of a major IV chord if necessary. Maybe I'm out of my element here lol, I just want to know the truth maaaan
@@newusernamehere4772 It’s a subjective idea, but Charles Cornell has a good video that touches on it. Look for his video breaking down Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar. He rants about a melody line using the 4 on a major chord.
@@ztcr6 amen to that
Great ideas and playing Jens! Your lines sound wonderful. I tend to rely - probably too much - on the min/maj7 arpeggio.
Thanks John! :)
Really great video..Jens ..thanks for this one..
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you Jens.
Regards,
David
You're welcome!
Awesome video, thanks.
The Most Important Scale Exercise In Jazz
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A jazz solo will usually follow the chord progression that it is played over, the most important way that you do that is by using arpeggios over the chords.
You are probably already practice arpeggios, but chances you can do it in a better way than what you are doing now, and that is what I want to talk about in this video.
Content:
0:00 Intro - The Tonic Minor Sound
0:25 Start with a Basic Version
0:50 Hearing the sound in the chords - Relating it to a song
1:20 What is a Tonic Minor Chord?
1:46 How It is built into Autumn Leaves
2:00 The Scale (The way we use it in Jazz🙂 )
2:35 "Jazz Minor" and Classical Melodic Minor
3:26 Exploring the Harmony
3:45 Diatonic Triads
4:14 Diatonic 7th Chords
4:49 Finding Arpeggios to Use
5:53 Putting it into 3 Jazz Licks
8:13 Same Material for Altered and Lydian Dominants
8:59 Example 1 - Altered Scale
9:46 Example 2 - Lydian Dominant
10:52 What is your favourite arpeggio to use?
11:23 Like the video? Check out my Patreon Page
I found a good way to get some of the alt sounds in my head were to play any and all of the altered dominant triads over the V of a ii-V-I. The nat 7 is a really nice sound on the tonic that is underused.
I've been trying with arpeggios, but I'm still trying to memorize the scale across the neck. I only know it well in one position. I've noticed a problem in which I don't play unfamiliar patterns as often as I should and probably need to add that to a practice routine. Do you have any chord-melody example tunes perhaps using reharmonization for melodic minor?
This is in my priority guitar teaching list. I only have about less than thirty videos in this list. This is the first one I'm going to work on because it is the area of music that seems to be giving me the most difficulty learning. I've been working on the Major pentatonic scale over ∆7 root and m7 locrian rhythm vamps on my own. Sounds good, but I was wondering if you had any examples of this in Jazz where the pentatonic scale is used from the Major perspective.
Thanks for the great lesson Jens, I don't play a lot of jazz, but I really like using melodic minor mode 2 over a dominant chord to get the b9 and #9, less "outside" than the altered scale, more useful in a pop context.
Actually Em9 to A∆7 using A∆ pentatonic scale. But am twisting it into Abm7.
Thanks Jens - I tend to highlight that nice augmented triad no matter what. I find it’s the nice “flavour” of this scale, together with the min/maj7
Thanks for the review and ideas on chords! This scale is one that still has me scratching my head sometimes as far as usability.
Glad you like it 🙂 Go work on some tonic minor chords then you’ll make it more practical
thank you Jens, again a great and inspirational lesson. for me the augmented triad is what I use most when playing the mmaj. scale. what i stole from here is the fingering of the chords... and hey, what a great sounding 335!
You are awesome and so are your lessons Jens
Glad you think so!
Thank you for sharing! Mabuhay! ☺️👌🇵🇭
This is really helpful!
You put so much work into your lessons, and they are superb. At the same time as they inspire me, they make me realise just how little I know.
brilliant explanation, well done.
Great! Glad you like it 🙂
Great stuff, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for the lesson! Very usefull!
Thank you 🙂
Great stuff as always
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you, lol, you very completely answered my earlier question about this. I'm watching this a few more times 🎵🎶
Great! 🙂
Great stuff! Thx.
WoWser…… that Ao, D7(b9), GmMaj7 ( throw a 9 on the top) makes a great little riff to end a song on !!! THNX as always bro.
My pleasure!!
Awesome lesson! I especially liked the Diatonic Triad of G Melodic Minor section.
Thank you! Glad you like it 🙂
I was lost with this info. Before this I just can play a few licks. Thanks a lot, Jens! XD
Hey, I am laughing but I am serious. Its just I became a self learning player for years and you are resolving basic stuff that is helpfull and works with simple explanations. Your work is great. Keep on going!
Still learning untill I die
Thank you Miguel! Glad it works for you!
very good player and plenty of usable ideas
Hi Jens, like your video’s very much. Very good explanations always. I always studied the scala from the third degree, being major 7#5. It’s the hardest degree to hear I guess but if you master this chord I guess it is much easier to hear the other chords. Also there is another advantage: Because maj7#5 is one of the less common degrees your licks and melodic ideas will never start on the root.
amazing lesson thanks
Glad you liked it!
Great thanks jens
Hey it has Melody and it's my favorite Tonality Minor! Cheers for the lesson!
Thanks RC!
Hi Jens!! I find the majmin7 and the maj7#5 arpeggios as the ones that really shine through the melodic minor scale.... They seem really colourful and exotic in their sounds!!
Very useful, thank you!
Glad to hear that!
So many, “Aha!!!!” Moments when i watch your videos! A lightbulb going off in my head. Thank you for the videos. Also, Ibanez should contact you so you can have your own signature guitar. The Jens Larsen Special. The JL2000 haha
Glad you like them! A signature guitar would be crazy 😁
THANK YOU SIR!!!!
this was awesome, Jens
Haha! Thank you :)
@@JensLarsen Yes thank you! I'm finally starting to get it lol.
It was better than that.
hi dear jens
thanks a lot for invaluable materials
You are very welcome 🙂
Great explanation Jens, well what I use a lot when using the melodic minor in alt situation is the halfdim arp on the 7th of the original dominant getting the 9- and 13-. The tritone substitute like Db7 oveŕ G7. Fdim an Gdim as traidpairs over G7. Db and Eb as traidpairs over G7. Bbmi penta over G7. B lydian augmented as you explained here. Greetings Vic.
You are an awesome music teacher!
Thank you very much 🙂
i like the bIIImaj7+ arpeggio in melodic minor and especially the whole tones between the b3 and the natural 7.
I've altered it some and tailored it to fit my fusion style. I used to play a lot of straight jazz standards, but I decided to make this thing my own. Cool stuff.
That's great! 🙂
You can't lie to me. I've tried Melodic Minor, and it always sounds awful when _I_ do it. You must be using some secret magical scale! 😂
😁 Yes, that must be it
I felt like this as well, but with enough tinkering and listening I understand it now. It’s kinda like the major scale in that it doesn’t like to just be played up and down in steps, it likes to be articulated in thirds and arps and whatnot. As opposed to natural minor which can just be played up and down and still sound good. Your really need a chord or some kinda background harmony to get this sound in your fingers and ears especially at first . (Pardon my noob perspective) 😂
I find that harmonic minor is a more natural sound when starting out. Melodic minor gives a more contemporary sound.
Natural minor scale:
What am I, chopped liver?
@@ticarot more like a minced onion 🧅
Excellent!
Thank you Francisco Bido! 🙂
Just starting to try to learn jazz... holy smokes you guys don't mess around! Lol. I got a long way to go but I'll learn slowly and keep going. Ty watched a few of your videos, you break stuff down really well ty!
Thank you! Glad you find the videos useful! Melodic minor is probably not the first thing you need 🙂
Fantastic content here
Glad you think so!
Fantastic!
Thank you!
Great lesson
Glad you like it Joe! :)
Oh man this is awesome your a great teacher 👍
You're very welcome, Julio! I am glad you like it! 🙂
This is why Jens is awesome 😀.
He really is an amazing teacher
Very Good lesson!
Thanks!
I have no idea what you are talking about, but it sounds beautiful. I play by ear and know little theory, but I'm going to subscribe and learn as much as I can. Thank you.
Glad you like it! Hope you find more you can use :)
It s very nice playing your leçons mister
Any day Jens posts a new video I'm inspired to play the guitar.
That is a great reason for me to make videos :)