The Secret of the Harmonic Minor Scale

[D20]

I gotta watch these later! Always good to keep learning. I just always have an issue applying what I learn though.

 

[BABMusic]

Gotta watch out with the harmonic minor on the guitar. You'll end up sounding like Yngwie if you do it too often.

One of the cool things about lessons is you end up learning more than you teach. Depending on the diversity of the students you learn stuff you would not usually look at. It was that way for me anyway. Now I work in the funeral industry.

That's exactly what Randy Rhoads said in an interview. He said he got so much better as a player because he was teaching full time.

 

[gkl003]

thanks for the video.

 

[BDC]

I'm fairly familiar with chords and scales.
Ironically I tend to use pentatonic scales the most. Mixing in all the chromatic and microtonal stuff.

A lot of people look for short cuts. But the only way to really become familiar with this stuff is use it.
I take it you started looking at the modes based on the harmonic and melodic scales.
All these can be used to make chords also.
As you mentioned they have a unique flavor that comes from the scales and chords.
Some being more useful than others. Obviously all subjective taste.
But the only way to become familiar with them takes time.
I did this in the 70's.

Right there with you...That gives personlity....My pentatonic is really a hybrid anymore and most of my flattened 5ths and added on half steps
/chromatics (up and down)sound good if I do it in major too.. I tend not to mix major and minor much like say Page but I get what he does. That's his musicality.