Triads and Seventh Chords of the Melodic Minor Scale
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1. Harmonized Triads and Seventh Chords of the Melodic Minor Scale
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"Triads and Seventh Chords of the Melodic Minor Scale"
Excellent exploration of how the chords of the melodic minor scale can have practical use and pleasing sounds.
Brilliant. Once again Steve manages, in just 90 minutes, to unlock a whole world of sounds that will keep you thinking, hearing, practicing and improvising for years. Shame that the title might suggest some sort of dry presentation. Far from it, Steve's clear explanation and extremely musical examples (7 pages of them!) clearly show the harmonic potential of the Melodic Minor scale within the context of II V I progressions and simple cadences. Steve's application of these principles never sounds contrived, thanks to a very musical sense of voiceleading you'd normally expect from the most accomplished piano players, but rarely hear from guitarists.<br /> <br /> As always, the material presented can easily be connected with Steve's other classes (how about applying Van Eps's triad motion studies to run Inner Lines inside the Triads from the Mel Minor?). And also, although the materials are presented within the context of straight ahead ii v cadences, the material breathes new life when applied to more contemporary ECM-inspired tunes where you have to figure out something to play over 8 bars of C#Maj7#5 or B/G. Thank you Steve!