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Andy French's Musical Explorations

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Tag: Melodic Minor

Harmonic function in minor keys – the tonic

In Jazz Theory, Music TheoryTags Harmonic Functions, Jazz, Melodic Minor, Minor Keys, Music Theory15th July 2019 Andy French

At long last I’m going to continue my exploration of minor keys. In the first post in this series I observed that attempting harmonic analysis of music written in minor …

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Improvising over altered dominant chords

In Jazz Theory, Melodic MinorTags Jazz, Melodic Minor, Music Theory28th October 2018 Andy French

Introduction This is a quick recap about how to approach improvisation over altered dominant chords. Altered dominant chords will be dominant chords with one of the following tensions:  b9, #9, b5, …

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Melodic Minor Modes – Summary

In Jazz Theory, Melodic Minor, Music Theory, UncategorisedTags Jazz, Melodic Minor, Music Theory2nd August 2018 Andy French

This post is a summary of the previous posts regarding the modes of the Melodic Minor scale (see Index to other posts at the end). I am trying to break …

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Days of Wine and Roses - A section

An analysis of Days of Wine and Roses

In Jazz Theory, Music TheoryTags Harmonic Functions, Jazz, Melodic Minor, Minor ii-V-i, Music Theory, Secondary Dominants, Secondary ii-V14th July 2018 Andy French

Introduction This post contains a harmonic analysis of the jazz standard, Days of Wind and Roses. Beware though – this is a learning exercise for me so I can’t guarantee …

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Position 1 A Altered Scale.

Melodic minor modes – Altered Scale

In Jazz Theory, Melodic Minor, Music TheoryTags Guitar Chords, Jazz, Melodic Minor, Music Theory6th July 2018 Andy French

Continuing my look at Melodic Minor modes this post covers mode 7, the Altered Scale. This mode is also known as the Super Locrian scale or the Locrian b4 scale. Scale formula …

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Position 1 A Aeolian b5 scale.

Melodic minor modes – Aeolian b5

In Jazz Theory, Melodic Minor, Music TheoryTags Guitar Chords, Jazz, Melodic Minor, Music Theory6th July 2018 Andy French

Continuing my look at Melodic Minor modes this post covers mode 6, Aeolian b5. This mode is also known as the Locrian ♮2 (or ♮9). Scale formula The formula for the …

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