Writing Chord Progressions in Harmonic Minor [MUSIC THEORY / SONG WRITING]
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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.
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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
Signals Music Studio the link to the next video that you mentioned at the end of this one?
Nevermindddd just realized this vid was posted today. I'm new here. XD
You need to change the WAY you think....YOu CAN PLAY WAHTEVER the HELL you want,,,,,Even if you use just the notes of the harmonic scale
You can ALTER the chords...ASIDE from just stacking it EVERY OTHER NOTE
The Iion #5, Phrygain dominant, and locrain b4. bb7...are also possible AUGMENTED CHORDS
You can also my the Lydian #2...min. diminished, or min/Maj7
You dont have to stack it every other note.
There's 9 parallel scales....you know this..you're suppose to use ALL
of THEM and mix them all up...becuase just like the Natural minor
you'll also get BORED of playing just the notes within the Harmonic min
over and over again....even if you alter chords as from going every other
note...or play those modes forward , backwards or upside down...
FREE bird is in E minor......The F MAJOR chords derive from
E harmonic min b2...aka N6
Even in WILD HORSE..rolling stones.
.during the chorus...that b2 MAJOR chord
gets inserted
BYW C HUNGERIAN MAJO = E Harmonic min b5
C lydian #2, b7...incase you wanna make it C7
or A dorian b2, #4
it's like the harmonic min and melodic min got together.lmao
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Hi Jake! Take a look at my progression (play arpeggio): Em | F#m7b5(2322xx) | C | D#dim7 (x6757x) | Em | F#m7b5(2322xx) | C | B - sounds very cool!
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5:07 Santana mode activated.
Jefferson Sales uses Dorian.
i bet he uses modes from the harmonic minor too. this scale has a strong latin sound, depending on the rhythm you play in.
damn... i was about to write exactly the same thing :P
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Thinking more of Dick Dale...
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Great introduction to Harmonic minor! This makes me really exited to compose. I really dig the idea of keeping the chord progression ”hidden”, as in you dont know whether it is natural or harmonic minor. Offers alot of freedom in terms of improvising
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