Writing Chord Progressions in Harmonic Minor [MUSIC THEORY / SONG WRITING]

In this video, we go over the chords in Harmonic Minor and some suggestions on how to put them together in order to write music only using the Harmonic Minor scale.

*All chords are covered with the exception of the Augmented bIII chord. I forgot to mention that the chord is nearly useless to me and I have yet to find a use for it in the context of Harmonic Minor.

I will be posting tabs and the jam tracks on my Patreon page for my subscribers. Special thanks to Linas Orentas for helping sponsor these lessons!

Free online guitar lessons for beginners, intermediate, and advanced players. Located in Crystal Lake, Jake Lizzio provides free jam tracks and video lessons for guitar players, as well as music theory videos and other music education content.

Table of Contents:
00:00 Intro
00:34 Harmonic Minor Scale
03:26 The Diminished Chords
06:13 Writing In Harmonic Minor
07:48 Harmonic and Natural
10:07 Wrapping Up

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00:38 Building the Chords
01:28 Start writing!
03:26 Discussing Diminished
04:17 i-iiº
05:00 DEMO i-iiº in Minor and H.M.
05:42 iiº-V-i
06:13 More Writing!
06:58 DEMO Yngwiesque Prelude
07:48 Comparing Against Minor
09:30 DEMO H.M vs Minor in i-iv
10:06 Final Thoughts

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