About harmonic scales...


Niko
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01/03/2002 12:55 pm
Can anyone give a harmonic minor scale tab??
My friend says that they sound cool when playing
a fast solo. Thanks!





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01/03/2002 6:34 pm

Harmonic minor is an natural minor scale with a raised 7th. If you know the minor scale, all you have to do is change that note. Example - For a G minor scale, raise the 7th tone, F, to an F#.

It's the minor third interval that give it that "bad to the bone" sound and makes it resolve more strongly to the root.



|--------------------------------|
|-------------------------7-8----|
|-------------------5-7-8--------|
|-------------4-5-7--------------|
|-------3-5-6--------------------|
|-3-5-6--------------------------|


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01/03/2002 6:56 pm
hey Christoph if we are already talking about the harmonic minor do you know what are the modes of the harmonic minor?


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01/03/2002 7:08 pm

If you know the regular modes you don't need to relearn anything. Just add the sharp 7th to the natural minor modes.

Or if you want to look at it from a major position, you'd be adding a sharp 5th to all the modes.
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01/03/2002 7:12 pm
cool, but can you give me their names please?
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01/03/2002 7:17 pm
LOL. Well, the only one that I know that even has a name is dominant phrygian. (I think Satriani termed it that)

That's phrygian with a raised 3rd. :cool:
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01/03/2002 7:27 pm
hehe :)
actualy i think they all have names, hopefuly I'll find those names somewhere :)
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01/03/2002 8:14 pm
Don't the names simply correspond to normal mode names? So you'd have Harmonic Iolian (a really cool scale btw), Harmonic Dorian, Harmonic Phrygian (aka dominant phrygian), etc.?
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01/04/2002 5:56 pm
The modes of the harmonic minor all have there own names and are mostly used as altered scales to apply over dominant chords. I often get the mode names confused with the melodic minor mode names so I'm going to remain mute on that one as to not misinform anyone.
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01/06/2002 12:30 am
I have read a book where Frank GAMBALE named them... It was 'improvisation made easier' but it wasn't that simple...
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