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Melodic Minor Madness

Melodic Minor Madness

Sheryl Bailey·
5.0 (1 review)·INTERMEDIATE·Harmony·1 lesson
$8.95
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How to expand your chordal palate and melodic lines by converting to min/ma7 voicings from the Jazz Melodic Minor scale. I will show how the min/ma7 relates to all of the common chord functions: I minor, I major, II subdominant, V7 w/ natural tensions, and V7 w/ altered tensions. By using each function in context of the common II-V-I progression, students can open their ears and create more modern sounding voicings. I'll then apply each concept over a standard tune to demonstrate how the harmony opens up. Having a wide vocabulary of ways to voice the melodic minor sound will open the door to using it for inventing lines.

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SCOT GORMLEY
2/11/2011

Sheryl, I downloaded your newest Mike's Master Class yesterday, along with Boot Camp II &amp; III and Melodic Minor Madness. These classes are consistently excellent. Thanks again. I really like your tip about Dorian b2 (mel. minor mode 2) being a dom. 7sus(b9) chord scale rather than a minor chord scale. That actually makes the scale usable--imagine that! (I did a Youtube video in which I opined that that scale was not very usable--maybe I should reshoot that video.)<br /> <br /> - Scot Gormley (Columbus, OH)

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Sheryl Bailey →
"A modernist burner with an abundance of Pat Martino-style chops, Bailey sails up and down the fretboard with fluid abandon." (Bill Milkowksi, JazzTimes Magazine) is rated among the foremost bopbased guitarists to have emerged in the 1990’s. Her classes are unique and full of material you will not find anywhere else. She is also in demand as an educator. Sheryl is The Assistant Chair of Guitar at the esteemed Berklee College of Music where she has taught since 2000, and has been a popular clinician at the National Guitar Summer workshop, The Stanford Jazz Workshop, The Duquesne Jazz Guitar Seminar, Uarts in Philadelphia, and at Southern Cross University in Lismore, Australia.