#melodic minor

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Best scale that ISN’T a mode of the major scale?

Harmonic minor

Melodic minor

Harmonic major

Double harmonic major

Mixolydian b6

Super Locrian / altered scale

Bebop scale

Some other scale

Results

Voting ended onOct 18, 2025

[louiisaa]

my old piano teacher i had when i was 10 taught me d harmonic minor as d minor and ive never felt more lied to

it's only now that i'm learning about harmonic and melodic minor scales that i've realised this (5 years later)

[ssseneca]

Day 23

Practiced Bass for 1 hour by afternoon and Guitar Alternate picking for 35 minutes by night.

I remembered I have a jazz music folder a teacher gave me some years ago, I never got around it. I will add all the music to my library and start analysing harmony and melodies of jazz music, but on a later date, since I’m still needing a lot of practice to dominate Alternate picking and some other tidbits of bass.

Today’s session was fairly relaxed, I’m surprised how fast I grew into alternate picking, so my method was effective and concentrated to teach myself fast and efficiently. I guess I can take the next step before shredding which would be:

Learning arpeggios

Learning the major scale and connecting it

Some other lesser priorities right now are:

Harmonic minor on guitar, and connecting it

Melodic minor on guitar, and connecting it.

I will do arpeggios on bass too, since particularly the arpeggios where something I never really bothered about, but I will have to learn them, connect them, and negotiate chord transitions and modal mixtures to create interesting, melodic basslines.

[jenslarsenjazz]

Sometimes you have to shred! 

(or is it sometimes you have to shed :D ) https://youtu.be/2OwqNSgivf0

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Everyone’s listening to Lo-Fi Hip Hop and I quite like the genre myself, so here’s my go at it. Enjoy!

[jenslarsenjazz]

7 Jazz Scales for Cmaj7 - Vital Guide to Modern Jazz Guitar Sounds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27XtkurGEhw&feature=youtu.be&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcG_YgSiib6TzQ1sSupO84zf What jazz scales you use over a chord tells you something about the sound of what you play in terms of extensions and alterations. In this video I am demonstrating the sound of 7 scales that you can put to use over a Cmaj7 type chord. Ranging from the good old major scale to a few atonal and more exotic scale choices. A big chunk of what is available in Jazz Theory I guess :) For each scale I also give some suggestions for what arpeggios or pentatonic scales might be useful for that sound. Did I miss one of your favourites? Is there one I need to do a lesson on?

[jenslarsenjazz]

Hack: Pentatonic Scale for Altered Chords - Modern Melodic Minor Secrets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcWCwmjHwLI&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcETPNs-rb_np8MqLCwSIxBi&index=15

The Pentatonic scale is one of the first things we learn. And since it is something we are very familiar with and we can use this to change it a bit and use it for other chord sounds like Altered Dominants or other melodic minor sounds. In this lesson I am going to show you a simple way to make a great pentatonic scale for altered chords and demonstrate how to learn and how to use it.

[jenslarsenjazz]

Things you NEED to know in Melodic minor

Melodic minor is a key sound when it comes to modern and traditional jazz guitar. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lytyKOki0NM

In this lesson I will map out some of the basic and more advanced arpeggios and triads contained in the scale. These structures are also the material I use for the 3 melodic minor jazz licks included in the video.