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Jazz Guitar: Minor 2-5-1 (now www.TrueGuitarist.com)

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  • is there some special breathing technique while you play jazz-guitar? i observed that on some videos: the guitarists are often playing when they breathe out but stay quite when they breathe in...

  • @powersack ...not really, I just sing the improvised lines in my head (sometimes humming them quietly). it's like a sax player....you have to breathe at the end of a phrase!

  • what u are playing is phrygian dominant. if u wanna call it like that but is basically C harmonic minor, the reason of this is the raise seventh on the 5 chord of the normal natural minor scale... u could also play altered scale.... which is melodic minor starting from a half step above the root of the dominant chord u are playing, in this case for G7 u would play Ab melodic minor

  • What you are saying it is correct if we were targeting each chord separately, here I was trying to find a scale that contains notes that work on all 3 chords. Ab melodic minor (or G altered) contains Db and that does not work on the progression as a whole.

  • When you talk about Phrygian dominant I guess you mean in this example I would be using G phrydom on a Cm 2-5-1. The 3rd of the 5 chord (B natural in G7) would be the cause of the raised 7th (or natural 7th) in this case added to C natural minor (B natural). Thanks for your comment!

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  • It's called the Harmonic Minor scale.

  • Nice lesson, quick and short without unnecessary talking, thanks!

  • This is awesome! Thank you!

  • Jerry Bergonzi calls that scale the 2nd Dorian Bebop. The other one being with the regular b3 and natural 3.

  • that scale is called a g altered scale

    where you using that scale the whole time?

    like that lick starting from 3:20-3:24 the sixteen note lick was that just the altered scale?

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