Modes & Guitar Solo Techniques: Music Lessons : How to Play Melodic Minor Guitar Scales

[commonthread2]

You guys who can teach better need to miss a sub sandwich on your way down .........while your chording for change on the street corner,,or subletting your songs to a company that sells your worth or that pays you out a dollar a cd you can think of the free bees that came your way...... be grateful.......you sound like you deserve all this???

[HmongGuitarPlayer]

AWESOME

[martinaxman]

Come on guys, they give you a free commercial what else could you want? Yeah, sounds like you need some strings there fella.

[TheJetfighter666]

go to next level guitar. They don't bore you with bullshit . and it's free. Forget this guy.

[bulletformygizmo]

this is a scale often seen in . . . . . .. . DELIVERANCE ha ha ha ha ha ha

tone deaf or wat ??

[vecernicek2]

If you want wrong or misleading information, you'll never make a mistake with expertvillage. On the other hand, as soon as every idiot on the planet will be featured at expertvillage, it will be much easier to filter out lessons we don't want to see. Good work featuring this one.

[frannyp46]

The jazzers tend not to use natural minor scale descending.This is mostly done in classical.

[JamesHazBeHaiTyme]

Average Village.

[guitaristNick4444]

expertvillage sucks... they get the chumps to do lessons. this guy is an idiot just like the rest of their.. hosts?

[sm57]

He could have just said that a melodic minor scale (ascending) is just like a major scale with a flatted 3rd. and descending is the natural minor scale.......and in jazz melodic minor is the same ascending and descending.

[reapertcm]

wow great teacher syke u suck why aren't you alternate picking???????? u dumb or just inbred

[Willyboy933]

Gay lesson. A non-lesson really.

[spidey662]

cool

[fosinew]

Now I´m more confused, and it´s all your fault... you suck big time

[acbulgin2]

Well, he is correct in pointing out that the ascending melodic minor scale is a natural minor scale except that the 6th and 7th degrees are sharped, that is, raised by a half-step. The descending melodic minor is the same as the natural minor. The only thing that is not so great is that he like so many guitarists plays a note and lazily shifts his left hand fingers to the next position, meaning the notes don't sustain and sound wimpy. Mostly,one must make quick accurate shifts on an acoustic.

[adammnq]

you had no clue did you dude?

[rorroesdios]

yep.... this dude is kinda lost

[emotero7]

i cant figure this out your the most expert villager that i cant recognise as a great player sorry but its my opinion your not in the standard to teach guitar sorry :0 but nice try 3 out of 10

[dojomania]

It's different going up and down because that's the way it was written intended when it was used in classical music, ie Mozart, and i believe had its origins in arabic music ( Mohammedan scale ). Jazz soloists have used it , ie, Miles, Herbie hancock to great effect. The natural 7th is the key to using it in a jazz way. Many jazz licks utilize it ascending and descending in that fashion. You'll see tonic minor chords written as the natural 7th.

[iheartdd4eva]

It's different going up and down to create different tensions and colors. Play it for a while, listen to the tensions, let them sink in, then ask yourself why this isn't useful,

[theerion]

funny seeing you here :-)

[PayPerKisS]

Why is it different when going down?Whats the point?For me thats useless..but if you show me some melodic minor lines going up and down,id pay expert village..

[defdeezy]

why would you want that? that's fucking stupid. melodic minor: raised sixth and seventh. what else is there to know?