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JAZZ MELODIC MINOR MAGIC

Theory in a Thimble Music Series

Master Your Instrument - Master Your Music

Book Fifteen (B)

Allan Brandon Hill 2016

Harold W. Hill, Jr., Managing Editor

Cynthia Gaskill Norman, Series Editor

Third Amazon Edition, copyright 2018, A. B. Hill, Ed. D.

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If you know the scale for each chord, its impossible to play a wrong note. Ernie Watts

Table of Contents

How to Use

F Jazz Melodic Minor

Eb Jazz Melodic Minor

Db Jazz Melodic Minor

B Jazz Melodic Minor

A Jazz Melodic Minor

G Jazz Melodic Minor

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"Jazz is a complete lifestyle, something that you feel, something that you live." Ray Brown

Introduction

Jazz Melodic Minor Magic is a reference aid for musicians interested in jazz and the art of jazz improvisation. It is designed to help you easily grasp the idea of chord-scale compatibility; an important feature of jazz which incorporates the idea that a sequence of chords will generate a sequence of compatible scales. When improvising, jazz musicians often use the modes of the ascending melodic minor scale, one of many important scales used in jazz performance.

Jazz Melodic Minor Magic includes graphic displays of all 12 ascending melodic minor scales and their modes in both letter-name and notation. Supplemental material includes graphic displays which illustrate and reveal the hidden relationships of scale tones around the cycle.

Jazz Melodic Minor Magic is crafted:

to help you improve your musicianship,

to supplement, not replace, your current teaching and learning resources,

to allow you to easily grasp fundamental scale and chord relationships,

to accelerate your comprehension through visualization,

to accommodate differences in learning and teaching styles for all instrumentalists and vocalists.

"Jazz music doesn't have an expiration date." Anon

Definitions: Jazz improvisation is the process of spontaneously creating fresh melodies over the continuously repeating cycle of chord changes of a tune.

Source: https://www.apassion4jazz.net/improvisation.html

A great deal of modern jazz harmony arises from the modes of the ascending form of the melodic minor scale, also known as the jazz melodic minor scale . This scale is essentially a diatonic major scale with a flatted third, for example C D E F G A B C. As with any other scale, the modes are derived from playing the scale from different root notes, causing a series of jazz scales to emerge. Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_scale#Modes_of_the_melodic_minor_scale; Baerman, Noah (1998). Complete Jazz Keyboard Method: Mastering Jazz Keyboard, p.34.

Masters of the Subject : https://www.arts.gov/honors/jazz

More info here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEA_Jazz_Masters

HowToUse

The following pages are graphic, musical representations of the Jazz Melodic Minor scale, its modes, scale-chords and more.

Each scale is graphically displayed:

by letter-name diatonically

in 3rds & 4ths (diagonally)

in Mode (Dorian b2, Lydian aug., etc.)

by chord degree

with chord symbol

in music notation.

Play each scale-chord from root to the 13th to hear it's distinctive sound and do the same with each mode.

Cycle of 4ths/5ths - graphic representations of all 12 keys - see More here.

The Cycle of Fourths is a representation of all 12 notes in the chromatic scale, arranged into a circle. Its most commonly used to easily find the notes in any major or minor key, but it can also give the student a solid intuition of chord progressions." Source: https://deftdigits.com

"The Circle (cycle) of Fifths a visual way to learn the sharps and flats in each key signature, as well as the relationships between different keys. Arranging pitches create the circle of fifths in intervals of ascending fifths, in a clock-like pattern. Some musicians prefer it arranged in the circle of fourths; fourths and fifths are inverse intervals. That is, from any note, going up a fifth and going down a fourth will bring you to the same pitchjust an octave apart. This means that the circle of fourths is really just the circle of fifths, reversed. " Source : https://makingmusicmag.com

TIP:

"To get from one key on the circle to the next (going the counter-clockwise direction of C to F to Bb to Eb and so on), just take the 7th note of any scale, lower it a half step, and that gives you the ONLY difference between the current scale and the next one on the circle." Jermaine Griggs - Founder: HearandPlay.com

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"One of the things I like about Jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next." Bix Beiderbecke

C JAZZ MELODIC MINOR MATRIX

"Nothing will stop you from being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake." John Cleese

F JAZZ MELODIC MINOR MATRIX

Master your instrument, master the music and then forget all thatand just play. Charlie Parker

Bb JAZZ MELODIC MINOR MATRIX

When you're playing the blues in all keys, youre playing every II V7 I,

every III VI II V7 I and every IV chord in every key. Joe Lovano

Eb JAZZ MELODIC MINOR MATRIX

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