Altered Scale or Melodic Minor?

bobbystern · Veteran Member Joined: 06 Mar 2013 Posts: 125

So what is it? Altered Scale or Melodic Minor? How do YOU see it....?!

(see blog post)

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Turkle · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2017 8:57 am Post subject:

Great article, thanks for posting. Certainly a different approach than I use for altered sounds! But I'm sure that would be very tasty for modal tunes. Will be looking into this during my evening shedding session. Cheers!
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PINCHUNO · Veteran Member Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 242

Very interesting read.
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Steve-S · New Member Joined: 28 Dec 2017 Posts: 3

Thanks for the blog post! Very interesting stuff. Using a minor triad as a way to construct melodic minor scales through a minor ii-V-I is a neat idea. Thanks for sharing!

Sometimes the changes go by pretty quick, so it is helpful to have shortcuts to make sure the right notes go in the right spots--but to answer the question/poll...I'd have to say it's altered for me! I try to think about it as getting to know the way the altered notes sound in relation to the root, not about superimposing a b2 minor in order to get to those notes.

Thanks, an interesting read for sure!
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aaronwolf1 · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2018 5:46 pm Post subject:

Great read.
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