Improvisation Masterclass
Going Outside with the Melodic Minor #5
“Very interesting and useful way of thinking about playing outside. Moving between two key centers plus the diminished quality of the lines gives lots of options. Now to get it unde…”
About this masterclass
Genil Castro continues his deep dive into Beyond Melodic Minor with part II: Going Outside with the Melodic Minor #5. In this advanced jazz guitar lesson, Genil shows how to superimpose dominant scales over static minor chords — a modern way to add life and outside color to your sound.
In this class, Genil discusses
- Introduction to the Melodic Minor #5 scale and its dominant modes, Lydian b7 (#9) and Altered (13): definition and construction
- A strategy for playing outside over a static minor chord using dominant scales
- Chord-scale relationships: the chords derived from the Melodic Minor #5 scale and how to use them in a dominant chord progression
- Soloing and improvisation with the scale, including enclosures, chromaticism, and approach notes
- Examples of how the Melodic Minor #5 scale is used across jazz and fusion
- Practice techniques: exercises for fingerings, scales, and phrases, with examples
This is an advanced class. Running time is 39 minutes, with an 8-page PDF and audio included.
Lessons in this masterclass
Lessons
- 1Going Outside the Melodic Minor pt II Full Class38m 53s
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Dane Clarke
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"Going Outside with the Melodic Minor #5"
Very interesting and useful way of thinking about playing outside. Moving between two key centers plus the diminished quality of the lines gives lots of options. Now to get it under my fingers!
yakov esterlis
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"amazing ideas and teaching"
the best jazz teacher out there!
james seaberry
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"going outside with melodic minor"
Fantastic 2-clas series!!!! ideas I never had been exposed to. Highly recommended.
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Studies: Genil Castro started to play in 1981, he studied with the great Bossa Nova guitar player Sidney Barros ( Gamela). During the period of 1983/84 Genil enrolled Guitar Institute of Technology in Hollywood, California where he attended workshops and seminars by Lenny Breau, Howard Roberts, Mick Goodrick, Joe Diorio, Ron Eschete, Joe Pass, Tommy Tedesco, Larry Coryell and Moacir Santos. He also attended seminars by Joe Diorio in Brazil in 1985, 1989 and 1995. Licensed in music education by University of Brasília, Genil has a Masters Degree in Musicology, with the thesis: “What chord is that? Plurality: the creative process of resignification of melodic and harmonic structures” Performance: Influenced by Lenny Breau and Bill Evans Genil follows the tradition of the ‘electric lap piano” utilising artificial harmonics to expand the harmonic palette of the instrument. Genil played concerts, and/or recorded TV programs with João Donato, Hamilton de Holanda, Toninho Horta, Joe Diorio, Jeff Andrews, Don Burrows, Phil DeGreg, Lula Galvão, Nelson Faria and many others. He recorded the CD CircumAmbulation in 2009. Teaching: Genil teaches the following classes: guitar, history of the guitar and performance at CEP/EMB Escola de Música de Brasília since 1999. He gave seminars in various festivals across the country. Since 2006 he teaches online lessons to students from different continents. Genil Castro's approach to jazz is comfortable for any level of guitarist. He has a unique ability to teach difficult concepts in a simple way.