Jazz Minor Scale

[Californiaman]

Been working with the Jazz minor scale over the past couple of days.

It's based on the Melodic Minor scale. The scale is formed by taking a Melodic Minor scale with the 6th and 7th steps raised BOTH ASCENDING AND DESCENDING.

 

Application:

For any Dominant 7th chord use the Jazz minor scale whose key note is a half step higher than the root of the Dominant 7th chord.

 

Example:

For a G7 chord use the Ab jazz minor scale. Improvising against an E7 chord? Use the F jazz minor scale.

[damian]

And the question is ??

[Versatile]

I have heard Pat Martino do this to great effect

 

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[eallenb]

Can we hear it?

 

[biggrin]Please Post!

[surfpup]

That sounds awfully complicated. Guess I'll just stick to making crap up.

[Duende]

That sounds awfully complicated. Guess I'll just stick to making crap up.

 

LMAO!!

 

Matt

 

 

 

 

[djroge1]

You should get a copy of Larry Carlton's 335 blues DVD lessons. He covers the MM scale and the use of playing it 1/2 step above the V. Also, you can play it 1/2 step above a chord acting as the V chord.

 

So in a I-IV-V progression of A-D-E you can play the MM 1/2 step above the E (F melodic minor) since E is the V and it leads you back to the I chord (A). But you can also play an A# melodic minor over the I (A) because it leads into the IV (D) chord. The A chord is acting like a V for the D chord.

[Californiaman]

Thanks DJ.

I'll look into that.

I've wanted that DVD for a while, but somehow with all the things I've been going through this year, it moved way down the list of priorities.

I will look for it in the new year though.

[Golem]

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And thank you, Cali'man.

 

Theory is just too big to figger how to pick it

apart on my own and find what's useful to me.

 

And it's too big to remain in one big steaming

heap, in terms of usefulness to me.

 

So individual nuggets, like you offer here, are

most useful, and learnable, for me.

 

 

 

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