7 Minor Scales You Need to Know about

[@railcar123]

I can never rest Jens. You keep giving us new material to work on all the time lol

[@JensLarsen]

Well, I wouldn't worry too much about trying to learn everything I publish 😄

[@railcar123]

Jens Larsen "Neoploitan Minor" is another good "special effects" minor sound. (Harmonic Minor with a lowered 2nd) C-Db-Eb-F-G-Ab-B-C I like it because of the three chromatic note sequence (B-C-Db) "Try it you'll like it!"

[@georgeanthony4834]

Sheer unadulterated bloody genius.There are so many minor scales that I always thought that there should be a mnemonic system for remembering them .Now there is .Metallica minor!?Thank you sir .I am forever in your debt

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks George! Glad you like the metallica minor idea :)

[@jumemowery9434]

Thanks Jens for expanding my knowledge at the fringes

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it Jume 🙂

[@treblekicker]

Great lesson. This was a really helpful contrast between the scales.

[@JensLarsen]

Glad to hear it! Do you have a favourite? 🙂

[@necemer]

Cool Jazz Sound 😎🎶🎼🎵🎹🎤 Have a nice day

[@danielgrohl6971]

I like the way Jens Larsen can get right down to business and we all have a fun, good time, and i am not thinking as much of the end result as i am enjoying the journey and learning to really Burn One Way or Another ;)

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much Daniel! If you have ideas for video topics then let me know 👍🙂

[@jeffmoppi]

Excellent lesson. I liked the sound of the augmented minor triads, especially.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Dave! Augmented scale is indeed a nice flavour :)

[@bjarnesegaard5701]

Some cool runs on these scales. Sounds great

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Bjarne! 🙂

[@JazzDuets]

so many cool sounds!

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks Nick! 🙂

[@kathleenwallace7112]

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[@composer7325]

Excellent.Thank you.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you 🙂

[@eternalrainbow-cj3iu]

Aeolion we play of course on Fm VI step in All the Things

[@T.H.W.O.T.H]

Talking of sound, I'm loving the dirty noise you're using today. But when are you going take that gorgeously looking strat down off the wall? 😁

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks! I do play the strat once in a while: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sILNlXergJiaY5Y

[@flukecentral5641]

love phrygian #6

[@JensLarsen]

I guess you mean Phrygian nat. 6? So the 3rd mode of Harmonic major?

[@flukecentral5641]

Jens Larsen. phrygian with a major/ natural 6. 2nd mode of melodic minor. i dont know if my naming is correct i just think of it as phrygian but with the 6 sharpened a semitone, hence my 'Phrygian #6' naming.

[@JensLarsen]

Ah ok. I would call that Dorian b2 because it is on the 2nd degree of melodic minor 🙂

[@flukecentral5641]

Jens Larsen. that makes sense.

[@JensLarsen]

Did I forget a scale? Let me know if you have a favourite?

[@leonidhindenburg1039]

my fav is a minor phrygian. the darkness and dissonance of b2 & b6 is what speaks to me, but i'm no jazz player. very useful video, mr Larsen, thanks a lot!

[@bjarnesegaard5701]

Jens , can you say something about how you get that sound on your guitar in these examples here. Sounds great. Slightly distorted.

[@JensLarsen]

It's just a fender amp model in the Fractal Audio AX8 with an overdrive pedal. I have a video coming on getting a jazz sound with a strat, and actually that talks a little about this. I will probably make more videos on sound in the coming year :)

[@paolocaridi5356]

Hi Jens....how r u? Really like ur last post 😀

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks Paolo! I am good :)

[@paolocaridi5356]

Jens Larsen 👍

[@paolocaridi5356]

I will like to come in Holland to practice with u.....we see!!!!😀

[@artompkins7958]

Hi Jens - I used to think I knew a thing or two about playing guitar - I see now I couldn't be more wrong. Oh well. So, don't diminished scales fit into the minor scale theme somewhere?

[@JensLarsen]

Don't worry about it! 😄 Diminished scales are more for dom7th chords or dim chords in my experience

[@wobamusic]

Hey Jens, very informative and interesting as usual. Thanx a lot .... What do you think of the Harmonic Minor Scale with the 4th note altered to a #4? To me it sounds a way more "oriental" (sitting on a camel and riding into the setting sun in the Sahara ;-)) than the regular HM. Is there a name existing for that scale (HM#4)?

[@JensLarsen]

I think it is sometimes called Gypsy minor or Hungarian minor? It's a fine sound but is indeed very harmonic with the two augmented 2nds in there which is something I don't like to use that often 🙂

[@CMM5300]

Yes it's Hungarian minor. Hungarian Gypsy is 1, 2,b3,#4,5,b6,b7

[@mysund]

As usual, a top notch walk thru. Jens, you never use 8 note scale, and brute force it on a minor chord? (C C# D# E F# G A Bb C) C minor is well hidden in it, and it also function as a scale for a dominant C leading to FMaj or even Fmin.

[@JensLarsen]

I do use diminished scale but not so often on minor chords though. Actually I would then go for the other dim: C D Eb F Gb Ab A B because that sounds more like C melodic minor. To me the one you suggest wil just sound like changing the chord to a C7 :)

[@mysund]

Yes, the C melodic minor is close on the dim you mention, and if coming from a dominant G it can be heard as holding on to the dominants tensions.

[@JensLarsen]

Hm.. I don't think that a dominant in C minor sounds that much like C melodic minor?

[@CMM5300]

What. About Neapolitan minor and Neapolitan major. It's minor too. Also I've been playing with some scales. Lydian minor 1,2,b3,#4,5,6,b7 or 7 Dorian maj7 1,2,b3,4,5,6,7 Loc maj7 1,b2,b3,4,b5,b6,7

[@cooljazz2797]

Hungarian gypsy minor is great on dom7-minor

[@JensLarsen]

Great choice 🙂

[@KiraPlaysGuitar]

Any chance you're a fan at all of Opeth? Great lesson by the way, very perspective widening.

[@JensLarsen]

I am actually! But I probably won't be doing any Opeth videos 😄

[@KiraPlaysGuitar]

Jens Larsen Awesome! Something like this definitely seems to cover a lot of their sound anyway.

[@nlmal4]

Jens may I ask you a question: What is you TOP 3 minor scale over minor Chord. The same thing major and dominant. Furthermore I love the augmented sound but I struggle a lot to get that sound. 🙏🏾

[@JensLarsen]

I don't know if I really have a Top 3? It really depends on the context for me. But I really like the melodic minor scale and I actually use augmented fairly often if then progression allows it 🙂

[@nlmal4]

Jens Larsen thanks Jens for your quick response. I think I ask you not a good question. On Twitter I have found actually the answer to my question. Is your video about the 3 scale we should(or need) know. The Major, harmonic and Melodic scales. Indeed all contest of your playing or solo. Funny to get the answer through your material or videos . BTW thanks 👌🏾🆒✌🏾🎼 Is

[@verandi3882]

I have a little rookie question , so you take the chords out of the traids with an extra note to make it sound fancier in the scale itself and that is how you make chords out of every note in the scale ? forgive me for my poorly described terms.

[@JensLarsen]

Are you asking how to build diatonic 7th chords? I am not sure I follow?

[@verandi3882]

+Jens Larsen yes, also do the type of chords change depending on the notes of the scales ?

[@JensLarsen]

Diatonic chords are måde by staking thirds in the scale: C major C D E F G A B C Stacking thirds from C: C E G B From D: D F A C So as you can see the chords change if you change the scale 🙂

[@verandi3882]

+Jens Larsen thank you a lot , so that means if one has the melodic minor scale you can play a C maj7 or a C mMaj7 or a C Maj 6 with a D dominant 7 or D m6 ?

[@JensLarsen]

No that doesn't work like that. How do you reach that conclusion? There is no Cmaj7 in C melodic minor because there is no E

[@DoJazz]

5:46 The lick

[@JensLarsen]

Are you sure? 🙂

[@DoJazz]

Well, it's close enough... this one doesn't start in the 1st degree, starts in the 2nd.

[@spinisthebest]

8:35 Again

[@Shuzies]

Nice....this is so Great.....ron

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks Ron! Glad you like it!

[@CMM5300]

Great lesson. Why did you leave out phrigian and Hungarian minor? Enigmatic minor is worthless so no complaints there.

[@georgeeldridge7954]

Jens, how come you are fine with the blues scale as the minor pentatonic with a chromatic note, but not the bebop scale which is exactly the same concept, just a Mixo. scale with a chromatic note?

[@JensLarsen]

Because the pentatonic scale is not a base for harmony and understanding music in the same way the major scale is

[@georgeeldridge7954]

@@JensLarsen I still dont really understand.

[@JensLarsen]

@@georgeeldridge7954 Ok, that can be. The fact that you see the blues scale and how that relates to the chords as identical to the major scale and how that relates to the chord is probably where you should start looking. I don't really think it is worth it trying to explain how tonal harmony and scales are connected, how melody decides chords etc in a YT comment. It isn't terribly complicated if you start checking it out.

[@georgeeldridge7954]

@@JensLarsen Jens, im already extremely knowlegable on harmony and music in general, and there is no need to be so rude and aggressive, i was only asking a question. i was not talking about harmony, just improvising, like in your video. I still dont understand your opinions on this, is the pentatonic scale too low in terms of harmonic sophistication for a "Jazz" improvisor?

[@JensLarsen]

@@georgeeldridge7954 I don't think that I was being rude or aggressive, but I was trying to be being honest. Sorry if you don't like that. As I said above: the fact that you do not see how melody, harmony and scale is one thing is the key (no pun intended) to you not understanding.

[@franckcebret4021]

In the same idea, the Phrygian mode ?

[@JensLarsen]

Certainly! Though I use that more as a dominant sound than as a minor sound 🙂

[@franckcebret4021]

Jens Larsen thanks !