We’re gonna have another special guest next week. We’ve been doing a lot of other great shows lately. Last week, we had Steve Nixon, from Free Jazz. Now we’ve been having special guests on the show. I’m equally excited that you’re here, to hang out with me, and listen in, whether it’s your first time ever listening to the show, or whether you’re a regular listener. I am the jazz musician behind the website,, which is a blog and a podcast, all geared towards helping you become a better jazz musician. How to Play The Modes of the Melodic Minor Scaleįree Guide to learn standards by ear: Learn Jazz Standards the Smart Way Read the Transcript Internalize these sounds and start creating melodies. The next step is to turn these scales into music. Pick one that connects with you and put it to work. Not all of these will help you, and you don’t need to think about all of these chords this way. To put these to practice, just take one of these and work on it this week. Keep in mind, you could simply play the melodic minor root parent scale over all of these. I’ll list the spelling of the mode you can play beside each chord. Here are the chords mentioned in this episode. Using the Melodic Minor Over 7 Different Chords Remember, to keep things simple, just think of the modes as simply starting and ending on the different scale tones. Here are the modes of the melodic minor scale. Here’s a melodic minor scale in concert C: I do my best to keep things simple, and at the end of the day, I would encourage you to take just one of these chords and put the melodic minor to practice. And I’ll be honest, if you’re not very familiar with music theory concepts this episode might be fairly meaty for you. I personally have been working on the modes of the melodic minor and how to relate them to particular chords. However, using chord-scale theory can be a great way to look at things from a different angle. I come more from the school of learning solos and tunes by ear and learning the language by ear. They aren’t really musical by themselves, and it’s up to us to think of them as pitch collections and make real music out of them.Īt the end of the day, I’m not really a chord-scale theory kind of a guy. Now, if you’ve been listening to this podcast for a while, you know how I feel about scales. The melodic minor scale is used a lot in jazz theory textbooks and classroom settings because it’s a great way to conceptualize improvising over some more unique chords and chord extensions.
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