2 Minor Scales (Focus for Regular Diatonic Harmonica).40

[Peyoutreaux]

-1 2 -2' -2 3'' 3' 4 -4

-4 5 -5 6 -6 6o 7 -8

[ellis900]

Are the scales the same on any key?

[ytza3]

inception scale.. with bends within bends !

[chalberk]

0:34 ...good one

[sheenalamb]

what up with the up side down pentagram thing at 34 secs???Lmoa...hahah

[harpdoodle]

I just love this lesson.....

I always seem to come back home to this one

[hillspring13]

Hi J. So is the only difference between the first of these minor scales and the Dorian scale as follows? The 3-draw half bend in the former is replaced by a 3-draw natural in the latter (and 6 overblow by 7 draw in the next octave)? Cheers.

[jasonricci]

Exactly!

[hillspring13]

Thanks Jason! I'm working on a rectangular variation of my 1994 "Wheel-o-Harp" (in my 008 vid) that shows harp players all the holes (NB not notes) for major, minor, lydian, myxo, harmonic mino, etc. scales in one viewing. Certainly helps me! While I'm here, is the pentatonic merely 2D 3D 4B 4D 5D 6B, or is there a fractional bend on the 3D? Hope you're enjoying your tour/hols.

[hillspring13]

Forget that last comment about the pentatonic. I've now worked it out, but 4 hours ago I hadn't realised the difference between the pentatonic major, minor and anhemtonics, so I was confused by the different versions on the net. As far as I can work out, the major and minor are respectively done by Howard Levy and Adam Gussow on YT.

[gosiawoodman]

here I am again, picking up a few more phrases...........is Jason playing a Bb harp here?

Woody

[AntonioPistola]

what song were you playing at 1:10

[jasonricci]

Just improvising i a George Smith style.

[hillspring13]

There's a great "Arabic" minor section in Muse's new(ish) United States of Eurasia (symphonic Resistance album). I'd love to see JR doing something along these lines with either Muse or Rufus W. A mind-blowing combination.

[MatthieuChristmann]

ok for the scale but...Coltrane on the harmonica! ...you make my dreams come true!

thanks, i got my first clear and easy overnotes watching this vid.

[jasonricci]

Thank you!!!!

[gosiawoodman]

I find myself always coming back to this tuition video more than others. After Jason plays the scales, I just love the improvised playing he does. I am still trying to emulate it.

[jasonricci]

93

Thank you my friend! We should chat sometime over coffee.

J

93 93/93

[gosiawoodman]

I hope we will one day.

[gosiawoodman]

This is inspirational stuff, not a reason to give up. Jason often answers between reading Crowley's writings......!!!

[clrn2mt]

What the... I give up. I'll try knitting instead! How many years have you been playing? Whatever, you won't answer because you will be out talking to UFOs.

[jasonricci]

21 years playing harp and I only spent the last five talking to inter-dimensional beings not UFO's silly!

[gosiawoodman]

From 1.06 to 1.50 is what I aim to play, even though in this video Jason wants to show us how to get away from it.....because it has been done. It may be standard stuff to learned harmonica players, but I aspire to deliver notes like this.

[gosia127]

The resonance in the room is awesome. This might be a recording from Jason's own home.

[jasonricci]

The acoustics are good in my home and better since Brady moved out and took everything...But I have to admit this is a bit of echo added on this video!

J

[gosia127]

I was just guessing you made this video at home (although the fan squawking in the background was a clue).

Just out of interest Jason, what is the most valuable effect you use when playing live? (if any)

Woody

[jasonricci]

The Squaking was from Brady's bird Ramsey, (conure) The best effect is by far the Kinder Anti feed back followed by compression/ and or some sort of preamp mixer deal....Then delay everything else is butter on a biscuit...

J

[gosia127]

Compression , as a guitarist, I appreciate, especially on a Strat...but what is Kinder anti-feedback?

[gosia127]

The 5 blow...!!!!

I like this video so much!

I will never play harmonica like JR does, but he is the real deal....

[jimmyharp]

Really thanks a lot for your videos!!!!

[jasonricci]

Thank you!

[gosia127]

Jason...thanks for all this tuition. It really has changed my 'Monica playing. Me and Monica are geting along really well.

[gosia127]

Sheepbaba . .I found them quite by accident rewinding to replay. I didn't see them first time around, but that is what subliminal stuff is all about.

[sheepbaba]

What led u to notice the subliminal signs at 0:16 and 0:34?

[jasonricci]

AHA!!! Very good!

[DistantSoul13]

By glissandos do you mean bending up into the note?

[jasonricci]

it can be partly that in that it can certainly include a bent note or an over blow etc... but a glissando is simply a glide from one note to another it can be just two or many it can up or down or both...it's usually a nuance, a little flutter in a phrase, Think: be bop do bop DADEEDAYABOB da do bop (The Caps would be a big gliss.)

[gosia127]

What ARE those 'lil subliminal things at 0.16secs and 0.34 (i think it is)

[jasonricci]

They are only for fun "satanic" symbols to get see if people are paying attention. They have little to do with my beliefs and nothing to do with this video.

[sheepbaba]

So you didn't sell your soul to the devil to get the "blues" ala 'Crossroads'? (chuckle)

Goisa - you must be part of the observation core.

[summitporter]

Is this what you use for Afro Blue? Love that! BAG

[jasonricci]

YES and thank you!

J

[gosia127]

It's a good deal......JR.....

[Ledvolta]

Coltrane...

way cool.

[GermanHarpist]

Thats the coolest tips I have heard since a long time. So much new infoo. yay :)

[alewxs]

Thank you very much again for bother to answer but I do not deserve you translate that for me I will translate with the help of someone ... I'm learning a lot of videos with your harmonica, thanks.

[alewxs]

Muchas gracias por tus videos, eres un maestro me gustaría poder tener y traducir tus lecciones para poder practicar

[jasonricci]

Denada Alex, Hablo espenol un poquito solomente. lo siento Quisiera poder ayudar a más! Me encantaría que alguien me ayude a traducir para usted.

[daveyg06]

Cool Jason, very informative and I likes the way you add colour to the scale .

Davey.G. New Zealand .

[phillby01]

It is indeed how UFO's sound like. That and they go "FOOP!" at random intervals too, for some strange reason .....

Great technique and teaching Jason. I really enjoy watching your tuition vids.

"Yo bird, Shudddappp"

As the Naz man would say

"All good things".

[ooMATTiAoo]

what's with the bird outside?

[samuraifliphop]

The last scale is actually a minor version of the bebop scale. First one is the Natural Minor. Just to clarify, Harmonic minor is the same as natural minor, except the 7th is raised a half step. Melodic Minor is with the 6th and 7th raised on the way up, and the same as the natural minor on the way down.

[finchisgod]

The Harmonic minor just replaces the seventh with the raised seventh, what you are doing on that last scale is starting on the natural minor but then adding that half step movement creating a contrast between the two, but thanks, that is like teaching 2 scales in one haha

[Bobyslav]

damn nice playing - for a satanic agitator :D

I've been doing similar stuff for a while, since I have connections with Bosnia. But I'm not nearly that fluent. Need more mileage...

[AceOfHarps]

Sounds good man! These scales are great exercises.

[Mazblues]

wow - you are actually living in a cathedral...ain't that mad!?

[butterf1yz]

At last you're coming back to Terra blues! cant wait. Me and Jackson, first row. See u in april

Spaceodysseyguy

[krizem]

And a 666 too i am surprised no one noticed any of this, and no I aint joking what gives JR :)

[jasonricci]

Yes! Very good, I wanted to see how long I could get away with it, but you got me. Hey did you know your screen name in Czech means : "Cross wise"? I like investigating things too especially things we are told are bad.

[krizem]

Yet another subliminal message of a red pentagram of just 1 frame whats with this ?

Oh and nice reverberation in the room or is that digital?

[jasonricci]

That is indeed a digital effect and the overtly subliminal messages are there just to spice things up a bit and raise questions. Just having fun. No

[arbite83]

Superb Jason as always, You are the Best

[blogward]

Thanks Jason - the harmonica, the only analogue instrument that can do trains, dogs AND UFOs. BTW, on a C harp this is 1st position minor scale. Or something.

[valois89]

you probably meant 4th position - you play all the elements of the C major scale but you treat the A note as the root

[blogward]

Dunno. On a C Richter first three notes are 1 blow, 1 draw, 1overblow.

[valois89]

Ok, my bad, you're right:) I thought you meant a modal scale.

BTW This is, to be precise, the Aeolian scale (there are different kinds of minor scales)

[valois89]

and also the melodic minor (which is simply the Aeolian mode with an additional sharp 7th)

[blogward]

No worries mate. The more I get into music theory the more I remember why i dropped out of school:) Kudos to Jason anyway.

[veggieburgerfish]

and 6th

[christellester]

I will work on that thank you Jason...

[damonluvisi]

i like it a lot. now i just have to practice

[cobra12657]

Jason, thanks man you always get me playin different shit. I love 3rd position harp. Hey by the way, feed your bird before your next video.

[mark124567]

brilliant jason, love everything you and your band is doing, thanks for sharing.

[TheoBurke]

You're the best, Jason! I'll be practicing this religiously.

[12gagedan]

sometimes I feel as if your lessons are made just for me. I wish I could learn as fast as you can teach.

[Shaunh99]

Your bird does a better overblow than me.

[aerospacepat]

Natural minor?

[veggieburgerfish]

Yeah, it's not often heard of, but it's essentialy the minor scale of a key signature without any accidentals e.g. abcdefga (not abcdefg#a or abcdef#g#a)

[aerospacepat]

Often not heard of? I thought natural minor was the most common minor scale outside the blues world (I think dorian is most common in blues)

[veggieburgerfish]

It's weird- the notes are the most common notes that are used in music, but it is the least common to be played as a scale- almost always you sharpen the 7th or 7th and 6th... Classical theory really makes no sense... What I mean is, a lot of people haven't heard it called a "natural" minor scale, because they've never played it as a scale, just in music whilst not even naming it.

[veggieburgerfish]

Oh, by the way, if you're interested, it's the natural minor scale (although it is also sometimes known as the descending melodic minor) although some of the flutters and extra bends you're puting in are elements of the melodic/harmonica scale.

Natural (also called descending melodic) minor is 1 draw, 2 blow, 2 draw bent whole step, 2 draw, 3 draw bent a whole step, 3 draw bent a half step (only thing different than regular dorian), 4 blow, 4 draw (I think that's the scale in this video right?)

[jasonricci]

Thanks! You Rock!

[veggieburgerfish]

lol thanks very much. I had to take a music theory exam so I'm clued up as to the "propper" names now

[veggieburgerfish]

thanks very much. You videos have really showed me all the great things this wonderful instrument can do, so thanks.

[veggieburgerfish]

Ascending melodic (what people normally called just melodic) minor is 1 draw, 2 blow, 2 draw bent whole step, 2 draw, 3 draw bent a whole step, 3 draw 4 draw bent a half step, 4 draw.

And whilst I'm here, harmonic minor is the comibination of those two- 1 draw, 2 blow, 2 draw bent whole step, 2 draw, 3 draw bent a whole step, 3 draw bent a half step, 4 draw bent a half step, 4 draw. I think this one sounds quite arabiany.

[veggieburgerfish]

Great vid as ever. I've got to the stage where whenever I'm not playing harmonica I want to be playing harmonica at the moment. I even play it on the way home from school whilst walking. These video's are really interesting so thanks, keep them up.

[codica666]

Great stuff as usual J. ! I wont ask you what key harp it is... but I will ask what happened to your hair instead :) Where's all the red gone?!

[urikfox]

0:14 Bb harmonica =))