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Tag: Scales

Harmonic minor fingering on the guitar.

Harmonic Minor Modes

In Guitar, Harmonic Minor, Music TheoryTags Harmonic Minor, Music Theory, Scales1st February 2025 Andy French

This post is a summary of the other posts regarding the modes of the Harmonic Minor scale (see Index to other posts at the end). As with the Melodic Minor …

A scale exercise with up and down movement in 3rds

In Music TheoryTags Scales14th August 2022 Andy French

I thought I’d share a quick scale exercise that’s based on 3rds but using a bit of up and down motion to make it more musical. The basic approach is …

Phrygian Dominant fingering.

Harmonic minor modes – Phrygian Dominant

In Guitar, Harmonic Minor, Music TheoryTags Guitar, Harmonic Minor, Music Theory, Scales28th July 2021 Andy French

The fifth mode of the Harmonic Minor scale is Phrygian Dominant. A pretty evocative sounding mode that reminds you strongly of Spanish gypsy music. Use of the term “dominant” should …

Melodic minor patterns for 6-string guitar

In GuitarTags Guitar, Scales13th June 2018 Andy French

I have been starting to explore jazz theory in more depth and have run into the fact that I’m really not that familiar with the melodic minor scale and its …

Lydian Dominant scale shapes (part 2)

Non-resolving dominant chords and the Lydian Dominant scale

In Guitar, Jazz Theory, Music TheoryTags Jazz, Music Theory, Scales11th April 2018 Andy French

This post discusses the difference between resolving and non-resolving dominant chords before looking at altered dominant chords and the lydian dominant scale. …

Exercises for playing 7th intervals

In GuitarTags Guitar, Intervals, Scales27th December 2017 Andy French

This post contains exercises for guitar to practise scales using 7th intervals rather than note by note. …

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Andy French was the lead guitarist and vocalist with the British alternative metal band The Hollowkind. The band is now defunct but their tunes are available on Spotify or SoundCloud.

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