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Melodic Minor Scales - Example Improvisation 1

Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style

Tutorial: Using Melodic Minor Scales

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Lesson Excerpt: In this improvisation, I'm soloing over just two chords. Remember, it's very common to combine a major scale with the melodic minor scale built from it's 4th degree. The first chord is Eb Major and the second is Abm6 which is equivalent to our Abm∆7 chord from Ab melodic minor. In other words we can play Abm6 in place of Abm∆7. In order to play over this progression I'm using Eb major or Eb lydian for the Eb chord and Ab melodic min...
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