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The Harmonic Minor Scale Instructional video.
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Moon Cat
657 posts
Mar 12, 2017
1:45 PM
Here's a cool scale! I'm teaching it here in third but works out great or better in 4th, 5th, and 11th and more. Great for some minor blues licks and/or Gypsy stuff. Go Nuts Also a couple of cool new Blue Moon Harps are featured. Meow.


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hvyj
3245 posts
Mar 12, 2017
3:46 PM
JOCKEY FULL OF BOURBON, by Tom Waits and covered by Joe Bonamaasa is harmonic minor. Also OH MARY done by Springsteen and Theresa Anderson.
Gnarly
2129 posts
Mar 12, 2017
4:30 PM
Sinister Minister must be harmonic minor . . .
Seems to me that valving draw 8 would be really useful for the major 7th . . .
blingty
96 posts
Mar 31, 2017
4:04 AM
Nice stuff, Jason.

One of the things about the harmonic minor is that the V chord based on this scale is a dominant 7th chord. On the natural or dorian minor, the V chord is minor. Also, the ii chord based on harmonic minor is a half-diminished (aka m7b5) chord so it works as a ii in minor too, where you'd have a ii V i (2-5-1) in minor. Maybe Jason's video covers that.

Here's an example of a V7 -> i minor chord (with some other chords as well iv, bVI7 etc) using a lot of harmonic minor - in the solo at 2:16:

Last Edited by blingty on Mar 31, 2017 5:13 AM
blingty
97 posts
Mar 31, 2017
4:18 AM
As Jason said, it's often used in gypsy tunes. Here's one!

Last Edited by blingty on Mar 31, 2017 5:18 AM
Moon Cat
666 posts
Mar 31, 2017
6:33 PM
Nice Stuff Blingty! I love Yall!
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Maraboy
9 posts
Apr 03, 2017
1:24 PM
How far of the truth I am if I take a D-major harmonica then the notes of Jasons scale examble are: first octave E F# G A H C D# E and the second octave E F# G A H C and then 7th hole overdrew is it D# or what? mara from Finland asking
blingty
98 posts
Apr 04, 2017
2:46 AM
Thanks, Jason!

Maraboy, that looks correct, for regular-tuned diatonic in the first octave it can all be obtained by built in notes and bending. In the 2nd octave, the notes are correct and you're right that you need the 7 overdraw which is D#. The C is a hole 6 overblow though. (H, we call B)

Just as a BTW, I'm playing chromatic in the videos so it won't sound the same.


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