The Secret of the Harmonic Minor Scale

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stephen sawall said:
How long have you been teaching ?
I have been doing it 44 years. I don't do it much anymore. But was useful when I played music for a living. Live bands, studio work and lessons. I had to do all three to make enough steady income.
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I been doing it 25 years now. Basically the same stuff you said . I’m good at trade and barter in the side . Like today I sold like 1940s radios lol fr .
It would be really be cool with like 5 more students . I’m not doing it like the old days with 50 students .
But ya , people from RT have been the best with lessons . It’s been a trip .

But ya it can be hard times at different economies but I do love it
 
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Techdeth said:
I been doing it 25 years now. Basically the same stuff you said . I’m good at trade and barter in the side . Like today I sold like 1940s radios lol fr . I’d really be cool with like 5 more studio . I’m not doing it like the old days , people from RT have been with lessons . It’s been a trip . But ya it can be hard times at different economies but I do love it
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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.
 
stephen sawall said:
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.
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You ate 100 percent correct. Dudes be asking me for polyphia solos and it keeps me on my toes . How you get into funeral industry?
 
Techdeth said:
You ate 100 percent correct. Dudes be asking me for polyphia solos and it keeps me on my toes . How you get into funeral industry?
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Friend was working there and it was a 5 minute walk to work. Not driving to work in Seattle is much better.
 
Rick Beato has a neat video with short compositions in all the modes of the harmonic major/minor scale.

Some of them remind me of the film score for Milo & Otis, if anyone else has seen that movie.
 
7704A said:
Rick Beato has a neat video with short compositions in all the modes of the harmonic major/minor scale.

Some of them remind me of the film score for Milo & Otis, if anyone else has seen that movie.
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Cool video !
 
That clip is fun and no one cares...or maybe they're writing their own and recording it is possible.
 
Arch Stanton said:
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That was really cool. Extrapolating from that, I got that you can from one key, modally arpeggiate other triads to not necessarily change keys, but suggest chordal voicings of the first key. Brilliant! Now actually practicing that is another matter...
 
I learned this all by learning Steely Dan songs. Then after the accident, I forgot it all.
 
You can easily build chords off the harmonic minor scale by building triads (with extensions, 7ths, 9ths, 11ths) off of each scale degree.

Using A harmonic minor as an example:

Notes: A B C D E F G#

Triads: A minor (a,c,e), B diminished (b,d,f), C augmented (c,e,g#), D minor (d,f,a), E Major (the dominant of the key, e, g#, b), F major (f,a,c), and G# diminished (g#, b, d).

Use these to replace chords used in typical progressins ( i-iv, i-VI-iv-V, etc) and you cane make some cool sounding progressions.

Throw in some chords from a secondary key and you got something great sounding!

I would recommend Frank Gambale's instructional video "Modes no more mystery"
 
Arch Stanton said:
The thing that got me, was when he started making chord shapes out of the scale.. That sounded so fucking cool !

:geek:
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You got to learn the diatonic chords that come from each mode of the harmonic minor . Then you can also invert them
 
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