Forget Modes! Use This Easy Scale For Hot Gypsy Jazz Solos

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Forget Modes! Use This Easy Scale For Hot Gypsy Jazz Solos

In this lesson I'll show you how you can create beautiful, melodic and interesting solo lines using the good old 'Harmonic Minor Scale'.

There are two chords we can use the A Minor Harmonic Minor scale over in our solos:
1. A Minor
2. E Dominant 7

Video Content:
0:00 Musical example of soloing over 'Minor Swing'
0:59 Introduction "2 ways To Use The Harmonic Minor Scale In Gypsy Jazz"
1:53 Announcement about the FREE Gypsy Jazz Crash Course
2:57 Learn the basic A Minor Harmonic Scale
3:44 How this scale works over Am chord
4:03 How the same scale works over E7
4:45 Am/E7 Groove is set up using looper pedal
5:16 Hear me improvise using the Am harmonic scale over the Am/E7 groove
6:08 Recap how we can hear the same scale works over both chords
6:30 Highlighting the problem of improvising sounding like going up and down scales = boring!
6:53 2 tips to help the scale sound musical
7:20 Example of soloing using scale and 'Leaving Space' to create more musicality
7:55 Another way to make scale sound musical is to use 'Chromatics' - listen to example
9:30 Musical example 'Minor Swing' using scale, space & chromatics (with looper pedal)
11:43 Musical example 'Honeysuckle Rose' using Fm scale over the Gm7/C7
13:48 Improvising over 'Honeysuckle Rose' with F minor harmonic scale
15:15 Recap and how to simplify your whole approach to soloing in Gypsy Jazz

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