I'm starting to spend more time creating my own music, and I've discovered a couple licks that sound pretty cool and later I found that they are both part of the harmonic minor scale. The first lick is in the key of G, and the second is in the key of C#. I also have one in the key of A that I replaced the C# lick with.
Anyway, I assumed these licks would sound good over their respective minor chords. The G harmonic minor lick over a Gm chord, the C# lick over a C#m chord. But just for fun I tried playing them over the major version of those chords, a Gmaj and a C#maj, and it actually fits much better!
So why is it that these harmonic minor licks sound better over major chords? I figured the key word MINOR meant they would go with minor chords. But not so much.
Any ideas?
