How To Make Minor Blues Sound Amazing with Melodic Minor

The minor blues is a great place to explore Melodic minor, and you can get a lot of very different sounds with it.

In this video, I am going to show you how you can use Melodic Minor on an A minor blues, the different colors that are in there, not only on the minor chords but also melodic minor modes like Lydian dominant and altered dominant sounds.

This is Why Melodic Minor Is Awesome

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Content:
00:00 Intro
00:28 The Solo - Different Melodic Minor sounds
01:00 Blues Licks With Melodic Minor
02:18 You Need To Know This For ANY Scale You Want To Use
03:10 Beautiful Notes and Diatonic arpeggios
04:33 (Secret) Altered Dominant
05:29 Being Vague On Purpose But Sounding Great
06:36 The Lydian Dominant
08:00 The Altered Dominant
08:55 A Great Arpeggio Combination
09:48 Why Melodic Minor Is Awesome
09:58 Like the video? Check out my Patreon page!

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My name is Jens Larsen, Danish Jazz Guitarist, and Educator. The videos on this channel will help you explore and enjoy Jazz. Some of it is how to play jazz guitar, but other videos are more on Music Theory like Jazz Chords or advice on how to practice and learn Jazz, on guitar or any other instrument.

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[kevindonnelly]

At 2:20, Always, always, always ! For ANY Scale that you want to use in a Solo - you will want to check out its Diatonic Chords and Diatonic Arpeggios. You teach a lot of great things Jens. This comment is one of my favourites. It's so powerful ! When I was a kid, I used to try and solo with a Major Scale straight up and down - and wonder why it sounded so boring !? Wicked ! 🤘

[QuistJam]

Another awesome video Jens!! So inspiring to hear your killer phrases on my track 🔥🔥 Thanks!

[kylestevensanders]

That was a great shot at 0:22, placing the guitar in playing position. The little things!

[UncleEti]

You 're really a mine of information specially on this melodic minor blues style which is not often discussed. This said, I have enough material to keep me busy till the end of my life ! :) Tak vor de

[bensonklugh]

Muitíssimo obrigado pela essa preciosa lição Master Larsen

[RCSmiths]

Melodic Minor is where it's at for the blues! Great work!

[kevinguthrie]

Since both the IV, and V chords of melodic minor are dominants, It’s great for neo-blues tunes (and sections of tunes) that vamp between dominants a whole step apart, like Killer Joe, Inchworm, Baby’s Callin Me Home (Steve Miller). It’s a way to break out from just playing blues against them.

[DLF]

Thanks for the tabs, gonna dig into your channel more.

[zimk]

Thanks for bringing my attention to the sus triads on the melodic minor. Not something I ever practiced ! Great !

[rccarsandmusic]

This is a great lesson, I have been doing a Melodic minor study.

[JensLarsen]

Learn some basic Melodic Minor skills:

[WillCash]

Very useful stuff! Thanks for the video!

[thatlovejones]

Okay, my morning practice is set. Thanks, Jens.

[kabelogumani]

Love your channel Jens, although I play bass, I really find it helpful when it comes to improvisation. Thanks

[salvadorgarcia]

Maravillosa lección, con muchas cosas interesantes para aprender. Muchas gracias maestro.

[rccarsandmusic]

The Eric Clapton of Jazz, definate must watch all videos for Jazz instruction

[aaroncampmusic]

That natural 6th on a minor blues is quite a strong sound to me for whatever reason so I tend to use it for occasional effect while soloing mostly out of harmonic minor. Guess if I get back to playing I should explore melodic minor more for soloing.

[rccarsandmusic]

yup m6th arpeggio, also the m6thadd9 arpeggio. 7th arpeggio in there too, and pentatonic, and a Melodic minor 5 note whole tone variant scale, I call the Melodic minor pentatonic. gotta love the melodic minor.

[byefilm]

Great content as always, just one remark, should it be f# instead of g in the last measure of the diatonic chords? at aprox 2min 48 in the video?

[PatrickTengmusic]

Hello Jens Larsen I have just sign up as a Patreon