Video Guitar Lesson 8: Unusual scale choices (e.g. harmonic minor modes) and grace notes

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VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0XOIw8mCaI WEBPAGE: https://tunein-toneup.com/2019/03/01/unusual-scale-harmonic-minor-modes-grace/ In this lesson Dan really helps me to further my exploration of the harmonic minor by examining some usable situations in which to employ it. We also talk about grace notes and the value of 'feel'. There is plenty of other material and hints in this lesson too from using the tremolo bar to a major 7th variation of the pentatonic scale. As always, there is plenty of demonstration and guitar playing throughout. We hope you get a lot out of this lesson, whether you want to shred or are aiming for some new strategies to add interest to the melody of your improvisation. 00:00:00 Discussion about my gig with the new band and some insights about gigging 00:02:12 Introduction to the topic of the lesson 00:02:37 What are grace notes? 00:04:21 Blues in A - Gary improvising over the top 00:06:11 Dan demonstrating slides as slides or as grace notes 00:08:17 Discussion about 'feel' 00:10:21 Slides as a useful jazz tool, as indicative of the genre 00:11:04 Whereas Blues is categorised by more bending 00:12:12 Me improvising again trying to use grace notes over a Blues 00:20:37 Appoggiatura 00:22:39 Transition of topic from grace notes to scale choices 00:23:30 Playing the aeolian mode or natural minor 00:24:52 The harmonic minor scale 00:25:31 Harmonic minor demo 00:26:18 demo using the major seventh as a quick flavour 00:28:00 Using harmonic minor modes 00:28:11 E as tonal centre: Phrygian Major 00:31:57 Phrygian Major (Dominant) over a more metal groove 00:33:41 Taking each diatonic chord and changing to add the major seventh from the harmonic 00:37:50 Dorian #4 - Harmonic minor off the fourth (D for A harmonic) 00:39:53 Playing the Dorian #4 over a dorian vamp 00:47:50 Comparing to a diminished arpeggio 00:50:24 Marty Friedman type ideas for getting an unusual sound 00:51:32 Introducing the tremolo bar to increase the pitch capacity of bends 00:52:39 Using the trem to shape the transitions of the notes 00:54:39 Tremolo bar demo 00:58:25 New strange scale - move each root note in pentatonic a semitone lower 00:59:49 Funky vamp demo 01:02:56 Final suggestions 01:07:35 Diminished string skipping ideas