The Secret of the Harmonic Minor Scale

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[figueroa]

As a blues-dominant guitarist, thank you for integrating blues concepts into the harmonic minor. I was struggling with how integrate it with my blues tendencies.

[RossCampbellGuitarist]

Let's try that again, shall we?

Made the silly mistake of saying b5 rather than #5 the first time I uploaded this video - I have corrected it in this upload. Hope you enjoy the lesson!

[SeeWhyMan]

Great job teaching this scale with enough theory to explain it well, but not so much that it scares off too many people :) I've used this scale a lot in the last 40+ years but never realized or explored the augmented triad built within it! Thanks man! You're awesome! Keep up the good stuff!

[sebastionhawk]

Wow...I am an intermediate guitar player, and, know modal theory and harmonic minor theory pretty well. HOWEVER, even though I know that there are only 3 different augmented triads, and, how they cycle, etc., I never put it all together as you have laid out here. This video is PRICELESS. Thank you. By the way, I kept hearing "she's so heavy, " Beatles, and, NOW see how harmonic minor really comes into such blues songs.

[CMM]

I've only recently started exploring augmented triads all over the fret board for harmonic minor.... guess that makes me special nice lesson!

[mrmc]

What a teacher. I'm definitely buying the bulletproof series!

[Karlgolden]

As always awesome bro! Your gonna be hitting the 100K subs in no time! \m/ Quality lessons

[marksullivan]

ALWAYS love your lessons. Great instructor!!

[davidlane]

That third lick with the one note borrowed from the pentatonic scale is extra cool because it also functions as an altered scale lick over the V chord, resolving to the fifth of the I chord.

[mr.cmusic]

Fantastic! Opened up many doors for me, TY!

[Tatokala]

Good lesson. Until now i always wondered why to deal with augmented/diminished triads (major and minor are enough) but now i have a better understanding.

[markjairuscoreaje]

thank you, really helpful with my playing

[gflyer]

Good information. I’ll throw in my 2 cents...I tend to think of harmonic minor when playing over the V chord in a minor key. For example, for a song in Am, if the harmony moves to E7, I use A harmonic minor, but “think” E7. I just add the minor second to an E7 arp for example (F) and get E-F-G#-B-D. In fact, if you eliminate the E, you have a nice diminished scale F-G#-B-D, which is symmetrical and works all over the fingerboard, resolving nicely to Am.

[stuarthossack]

Inspector Gadget theme is how I remember the harmonic minor. Possibly my favourite tonality, dunno if Scott Gorham used it a lot in Thin Lizzy but it sounded that way, it's how I remember his playing anyway.

[greighowell]

Quality content as usual Ross. Very informative, well executed and put together. Keep up the good work brother. Thanks

[elgonm]

Cheers Ross, never even looked at this scale, thanks for opening up my fretboard for me mate ..btw your playing is awesome as well 👏😎

[RJRonquillo]

Cool lesson, I'm gonna shed it tonight.

[jimkangas]

Interesting. Perhaps a bit misleading in that TRIADS built off 3, 5, and 7 are not augmented (only 3 is), but if you skip the 3rd note of the triad built on degrees 5 or 7 for the next, it will indeed yield an augmented structure.

[donlessnau]

Outstanding info and vid. Well done. You have excellent presentation skills. Clear direct info in a measured, easy to follow pace. Thanks a lot.

[Summersblues]

I would have liked to have seen you jam with the harmonic scale and a jam track a little bit longer, because i wasn’t too familiar with it! Next time don’t be afraid to rip it up on the guitar for a couple minutes, we love to see great Guitar Players ripping it up! A bit!