Blues Guitar Lesson - Larry Carlton - 335 Blues - Melodic Minor Blues

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Melodic Minor Blues

The melodic minor scale has such a unique sound, and sets up a wonderful tension for resolving to a I chord. Melodic minor is a natural minor scale with a minor 6th and major 7th in it. Check the tab for the notes of an F melodic minor, which I'm playing in these examples.

Here we're using melodic minor a half step above the V chord (or, as I explain in the clip, half step above any chord that's functioning as a V chord). If you're playing blues in A, the V chord is E - and a half step above that is F.

So one place to use the F melodic minor scale is over the V chord in an A blues. It has great impact and pulls the ear back very strongly to the I chord (in this case, A).

In Video 2 you'll hear the melodic minor scale put to work on an A minor blues. Listen for it, learn the solo and then experiment using the melodic minor in other progressions and grooves.

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[tubeorvalve]

@peterlanghaar Confusing indeed...

[peterlanghaar]

@tubeorvalve It does. But he plays Bb melodic minor or A superlocrian. Two modes of the same scale. Confusing stuff.

[synesthesia67]

I'm not sure that what he just did is teachable...but there's plenty to learn from!! is that possible??...hehe

[tubeorvalve]

over the A7 before it changes to D7 it sounds more like Bb superlocrian... does this makes any sense?

[tubeorvalve]

thanks cosmicdude. really apreciate your explanation! a bugger to get around is the correct sentence! cheers.

[cosmicdude2000]

he's playing F melodic minor but from it's 7th degree E. So really it's now a mode of F melodic minor - known as E superlocrian (1 b9 #9 3 b5 #5 b7)- he uses it mainly over the final E7 chord before resolving back to the A7 chord and more typical blues runs

over the A7 before it changes to D7 he does the same thing with A superlocrian.

Hope that helps, though I remember melodic minor modes being a bugger to get my head round at first . . . :-)

[tubeorvalve]

dont know why but i dont see an F Melodic Minor scale beeing used here as stated in the text... can someone please explain?

[naturaltoby]

Wow....beautiful.

[zthetha]

This is PRECISELY my kind of guitar playing and PRECISELY how I can't play! Ah, well... keep watching the clip, son.

[hajimetinoco]

great i reallywas looking for something like this I hated the MMS 'til now