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Melodic Minor Modes Breakdown
#BASSNATION in this week’s lessson I’ll be going over the Melodic Minor Scale with you. In this particular lesson I’ll be playing the melodic minor scale over an F minor 6 chord. This is a pretty technical lesson going over several scales, scale degrees and modes. If you need a little review of your scales and modes prior to this lesson be sure to go back over the modes course!
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Great lesson!!!
Thanks! it’s definitely packed full but necessary 😎👌🏾
Daric, can you expound on that alterd 5 scale ?
sure, do you mean the super locrian scale?
yes
Sure, I think that was the only one gave an example and explained a bit more than the others but I can break down even further👌🏾
ok looking foward to it
Can you do an excersice going up the neck with the modes different octaves
Absolutely, there’s an exercise that demonstrates this with the major scale modes but not with the melodic minor modes. So we can create a modal exercise for this specific scale (melodic minor), no problem 👌🏾
You can also think of playing these consecutive modes as an exercise as well
Daric this lesson is so rich everytime I watch it I learn more about this scale and the chords, thanks Bro, Keeping it clean clear and percise PEACE !
That’s awesome man… it’s like you enter another world when discovering these scales and modes. Opens up all whole new doorway to your playing. Soak it in man! 😎🤟🏾
Hi. I’ve watched this a couple of times. Harmony and particularly jazz harmony are my weakest points as a musician. We will just put that on the table right now!
I was going to ask you: what makes it an ‘altered’ chord. I watched a couple of short videos elsewhere, just now. I am clear on the fact that for this to work you have to make up the chord to include 1, 3, b7.
Is the ‘altered’ part in the scale the b5; b9; b11; #5; #9; #11?
Thank you 🙂
Also, yes to the 10 minute members’ chat that you suggest in this video, although it seems you are quite busy now as things open up again, so perhaps you’re not planning to do that now (haha – I post so much, I’m most likely way down the queue!!).
Thanks Sir.
Firstly, you do NOT post too much! Lol.
Secondly, you are correcting on the definition of the “altered” meaning. Also the chord needs to ínclude the 5 as well. Just a little more difficult for us bassists to incorporate all on the fretboard at the same time.
Thirdly, I still plan on doing some pop up consultations, just planning logistics of it 😎
Great Lesson Bro.
Hey Daric! Awesome lesson, great scale. Quick question, in your video you explain the second mode as a dorian with a flat 2 but in your pdf it’s written differently. Shouldn’t the second mode in the pdf be written as A string 568, D string 57, and then G string 457? If I’m wrong then just forget the whole post lol. Love this scale btw. I like how you use it on the 4 in your other video thinking outside the box!
Hey Isaac! Just seeing your message, currently traveling so I got it latex let me check this out to make sure there aren’t any mistakes with the pdf, if so then good catch! Stay tuned
Hey Isaac, finally getting back in town and getting a chance to sit at my desk! Like I said, Great catch! you’re right. thanks for catching that, the wrong one must have been uploaded. I’ll get that changed asap and let you know when it is. Good job again catching that
all fixed!, delete the other one and keep this one lol 🤟🏾
all fixed!, delete the other one and keep this one lol 🤟🏾