

Outworld, and keyboardist Derek Sherinian. Years, and has recorded as a solo artist, with his band Rusty Cooley has been playing and teaching for over 20 Be sure to check out guys like Uli Jon Roth, Marty Friedman, Jason Becker, and Jeff Loomis for more examples A B C D E In any key, the harmonic minor scale uses the following intervals: Whole step, half step, whole step, whole step, half step, whole and a half step, half step. Now we’re having fun! Watch all the position shifts and take it slow at first.Įxample 3 is a fast, descending run using multiple positions as well. I’m using alternate picking for all of the examples this month,Įxample 1 is a single-position, three-note-per-stringįorm to help get you acquainted with the sound.Įxample 2 is a fast, multi-position ascending run using sixteenth-note triplets. If you areĪ metalhead, just use power chords. The G harmonic minor chord scale is G minor, Adim, Bbaug, Cmin, Dmaj, Ebmaj, F#dim. Stress enough that you will still use this scale the same way you would a normal harmonic minor scale. When you add the b5 it becomes G, A, Bb, C, Db, D, Eb, F#, and resolves again to G. G harmonic minor is G, A, Bb, C, D, Eb, F#, resolving to G, and the formula for that is 1, 2, b3, 4, 5, b6, 7, 8. All the examples today are going to be in G harmonic minor. We are still going to apply this scale the same way we would a normal To a pentatonic scale to make it a blues scale, we are going to add a b5 to a harmonic minor scaleįor some additional flavor. This month I’d like to share a cool little trick with the harmonic minor scale.
