John Stowell - Melodic Minor Applications

Excerpt from John Stowell's "Melodic Minor Applications" Master Class 9/11/06 on www.mikesmasterclasses.com - available for download.

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• Minor
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[Drblooter99]

C melodic minor is not a mode of Bb major.

[andym87]

The people at the back look kinda bored...

[ihroch]

@danlovesnan Do you still have the problem?(; It depends on what kind of G7 you played it. C melodic minor gives you only one altered note, namely Eb (D#). Ab melodic minor, on the other hand, gives you all four altered notes. If you use it you wanna make sure some of those alterations are also present in the chord...

[brwnhornet59]

@PattenDevin If you are playing an unaltered V chord Myxo b6 sounds great. The C, (11), if played properly is treated as a passing tone. Over a V7b9 I love the sound of Dorian b9 as well.

I prefer playing the altered scale over the tritone of the V, which is Lydian b7, (tritone of G7 is Db7, Db lydian b7 is Ab MM), The #11,(G), is a beautiful lead into CM7.

[brwnhornet59]

You can but you need proper passing tones, which in effect gives you MM if you know what you are doing.

[Nickiefive]

@Drblooter99 no its not.

[lukegreenhalgh225]

and lol at jiloch saying everyone only cares about the major scale modes.....u cant play jazz with just major scale modes

[lukegreenhalgh225]

Hey Danlovesnan, playing a c melodic minor will sound cool over a G7 cos essentially u r playing mixolydian b6,

1 2 3 4 5 b6 b7 works well either minor 2 5 1s as well

[PattenDevin]

@danlovesnan If you play Ab Melodic Minor over G7 you get the altered extensions. Altered meaning, altered 9's and 5's. Ab Melodic minor consists of Ab the b9 of G7, Bb the #9 of G7, Cb/B the 3rd, Db #11, Eb b13, F b7, G root. So you get the sound of G7(b13,#11,#9,b9). Which is a really cool and jazzy sound. You could play C Melodic over G7 but I wouldn't, just because of the C, haha. But you can do what ever you want man, it's your solo

[danlovesnan]

hello, I have a question. If I play a Cmelodic minor on a G7 it sounds good, but if I play a Gsharp melodic minor it doesn't..isn't it strange? I was playing the Ab melodicMinor thinking of the triton substitution G7/D7b (C#7)...Have you got any idea?

[synth77]

@TheJazzyFrenchman I don't know with songs that don't have ascending and descending scales its kinda hard to working into a song.