minor/major pentatonic. It served as a shortcut and a crutch for so many years, allowing me to play something that sounded decent without a whole lot of understanding. Ultimately became very frustrating and limiting in my playing AND in my understanding of songs/writing. Although my lazy solution was just to add notes to the scale in my mind while I was playing for extra color, I kind of developed a pretty good intuition for playing intervals I was hearing in my head. Still, knowing is better than guessing. Now I am having a blast getting deeper into music. Wish it was earlier but whatevs. Love your approach! Please make a million videos!
Great video. For fingerings another way to think of it is a major scale with a flat3, so all major scale positions you know will work if you just use the minor 3rd
I haven't dived too much in the melodic minor but when I jam on a minor song and the 5 chord drops in I use the harmonic minor scale and sits pretty well. Thanks for the lesson, definitely going to look at this scale more deeply
I personally struggled thinking Mixolydian. My dad would show me interesting ideas with it when I was a little kid, but I never understood it fully. Like instead of minor pentatonic over a chord progression in A minor, he would start by thinking in melodic minor then all of a sudden start borrowing from F mixolydian. Sounded absolutely beautiful
I love that you sing the scales, and use a drone. 🙂 your approach makes even an untrained ear player like me able to understand, let’s me use my intuitive listening skills, as you say to feel the pattern, the emotional tension. And now I know, that I’ve used bits of the pattern, just not the stranger last 3 notes, because I don’t run scales, never have, but I certainly play them now. I play lead to popish jazz on Pandora and after 4 years not only do I know most of the structural parts of songs I used to noodle over, I’ve moved from piano parts to horn parts, and finally to guitar parts Chuck Loeb, Strandring, who both take it further than Larry Carlton, now I’m hearing that some of these lead lines are actually played with octaves when I barely noticed, just that the “notes” sounded odd took me a while to learn why but once I did one day I peeled of an octave run. As for melodic minor somebody? & Ferrah classical guitar duet, I AM doing melodic minor, I’m like a sponge Yeah at first just pentatonic but as I play I’m hearing these other notes from them…..a few weeks later it seeps into my playing. Chords….? Now, that’s a different animal entirely, but the facility and touch I’ve gained will serve me well, double stops and sweeps have brought me to a couple of jazzy chords just looking at the pattern I’ve made and holding it as a chord. Pattern recognition is my forte in life. And those 2 elements will lead me to triads finally, for the chord part I may get a teacher, like you, who will have a chord modulation circle or 2 I could gain facility on. I’m old, but all this started with. A Joe Pass guitar clinic, in ‘78 yet I only just got serious, playing 6 days a week as of 2017. Keep up the good work, 🙂
Learning Patsy Cline's Crazy the other day, that has a Minor Major 7 in it for a bar. It also has some sweet chromatic walkups and walk downs at the end of each section. I was shocked to find out Willie Nelson wrote it. Really cool Jazz take on a Country standard alternate bass thing. Common for things of the time to have secondary dominants, but this was a whole vibe. Starts right out with an A Major Chord, Root Note, then a G Natural into an F # Major heading to B Minor, B Minor Major 7, E, then a walkup. And that's the verse. Pretty dope stuff.
My dear , you are sounding just like Indian classical music , it’s not jazzy at all . Unfortunately you did discover the secret of western approach of a jazz . Im giving you a VIEW although i waste my time hearing you so cold secret . 🙄
Hey Rotem I have a silly question since I could just figure it out myself... Do you play the melodic minor differently when defending? Like natural minor? I don't think you are. I'm just a little confused about it because they kept telling us we have to play natural minor when defending the melodic minor. Is it only in classical music and not so much in jazz? Thank you so much for these lessons and your time. You are very passionate and motivating, I finally started working on the melodic minor scale thanks to you. כל טוב.
I was filling in a few years ago in a jazz club on guitar and things were going well. After the gig this old horn fella turns to me and asks if I’m good with my hands. I glance back at the stage and say “haha well, I’d like to think so; how did I do?” He says no, can you build shit? I said well actually I’m a decent handyman and carpenter. He says “my brotha listen to me you good and that’s fine you all over that mug but you need to know the right tool for the job. I didn’t finish my drink I hauled ass home and practiced until my fingers were bleeding under the nails!
Hey Rotem! Love your videos man! Here and on instagram! Great tips as always! If you don't mind answering me. What do you use to let the note ringing behind? Is it a looper or a delay? Or maybe both for ambience? Thanks man!
When you said close your eyes, I did (wasn't going to) and I really heard that pull at 6 and especially 7. Kind of like when you tune your strings from below the reference note up to the reference note you hear that oscillation until it resolves perfectly.. I didn't hear that when I was watching the first time. Nice lesson, shut out all distraction and use your ears.
thanks for the vids! side question: is the duo sonic worth it?... im all about cheap guitars these days, but it's price point is high enough that im not sure if im better off using the $700ish on a nicer guitar since it's beyond the 'budget' price point
Love the melodic minor such a versatile scale and great sounding. Very thorough and excellent lesson, liking your zen type approach. Always great content from yourself. Worst scale to learn? Getting the sound of the standalone altered scale in my head and the various diminished scales. They're all kinda related so my brain gets in a bit of a tangle! 😂.
Great lesson, thank you for taking your time with each note! What guitar are you playing? If Rotem doesn’t answer, does anyone know the name of that guitar? Thank you in advance.
Change from normal minor is so small that I never gave it the attention it needs. Hence I struggle to use it to this day. But your amusment at my comment has given me inspiration to focus on it again!
What is the worst scale you ever learned? And why?
every single one... once learned became my prison
Messiah mode💥
The musicians pay scale is the worst scale! Cheers Rotem!!
I didn't really become insufferable until I started talking about being a "modal player". So I'll answer "modes".
minor/major pentatonic. It served as a shortcut and a crutch for so many years, allowing me to play something that sounded decent without a whole lot of understanding. Ultimately became very frustrating and limiting in my playing AND in my understanding of songs/writing. Although my lazy solution was just to add notes to the scale in my mind while I was playing for extra color, I kind of developed a pretty good intuition for playing intervals I was hearing in my head. Still, knowing is better than guessing. Now I am having a blast getting deeper into music. Wish it was earlier but whatevs. Love your approach! Please make a million videos!
you teach so well, your guitar sounds so good and you have the best background on TH-cam. bravo!
Truly love your content and the way you see and explain things about the guitar and music in general.
Thank you for being ❤️
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this video is amazing. your content is always next level thank you!!
Thanks Ely!!
@@RotemSivanGuitar ✌️😁
My fav jazz tuber teacher.
Great video. For fingerings another way to think of it is a major scale with a flat3, so all major scale positions you know will work if you just use the minor 3rd
I haven't dived too much in the melodic minor but when I jam on a minor song and the 5 chord drops in I use the harmonic minor scale and sits pretty well. Thanks for the lesson, definitely going to look at this scale more deeply
Beautiful tone love it
That's the best lesson on Melodic Minor i have studied! Thx Rotem!
Thank you so so much again for your soulful and enlightening lessons. Love the way that you invite the feeling in.
Going to Patreon 🙏🏻
I personally struggled thinking Mixolydian. My dad would show me interesting ideas with it when I was a little kid, but I never understood it fully. Like instead of minor pentatonic over a chord progression in A minor, he would start by thinking in melodic minor then all of a sudden start borrowing from F mixolydian. Sounded absolutely beautiful
Thank you for this and for all your videos
I love that you sing the scales, and use a drone. 🙂
your approach makes even an untrained ear player like me able to understand, let’s me use my intuitive listening skills, as you say to feel the pattern, the emotional tension. And now I know, that I’ve used bits of the pattern, just not the stranger last 3 notes, because I don’t run scales, never have, but I certainly play them now. I play lead to popish jazz on Pandora and after 4 years not only do I know most of the structural parts of songs I used to noodle over, I’ve moved from piano parts to horn parts, and finally to guitar parts Chuck Loeb, Strandring, who both take it further than Larry Carlton, now I’m hearing that some of these lead lines are actually played with octaves when I barely noticed, just that the “notes” sounded odd took me a while to learn why
but once I did one day I peeled of an octave run. As for melodic minor somebody? & Ferrah classical guitar duet, I AM doing melodic minor, I’m like a sponge
Yeah at first just pentatonic but as I play I’m hearing these other notes from them…..a few weeks later it seeps into my playing.
Chords….? Now, that’s a different animal entirely, but the facility and touch I’ve gained will serve me well, double stops and sweeps have brought me to a couple of jazzy chords just looking at the pattern I’ve made and holding it as a chord. Pattern recognition is my forte in life.
And those 2 elements will lead me to triads finally, for the chord part I may get a teacher, like you, who will have a chord modulation circle or 2 I could gain facility on.
I’m old, but all this started with. A Joe Pass guitar clinic, in ‘78
yet I only just got serious, playing 6 days a week as of 2017.
Keep up the good work, 🙂
🙏
Thank you Rotem👍🤗
Thanks man
Learning Patsy Cline's Crazy the other day, that has a Minor Major 7 in it for a bar. It also has some sweet chromatic walkups and walk downs at the end of each section. I was shocked to find out Willie Nelson wrote it. Really cool Jazz take on a Country standard alternate bass thing. Common for things of the time to have secondary dominants, but this was a whole vibe. Starts right out with an A Major Chord, Root Note, then a G Natural into an F # Major heading to B Minor, B Minor Major 7, E, then a walkup. And that's the verse. Pretty dope stuff.
As the story goes it was originally an up-tempo tune when written by Willie, Patsy convinced him it was a ballad.
My dear , you are sounding just like Indian classical music , it’s not jazzy at all . Unfortunately you did discover the secret of western approach of a jazz . Im giving you a VIEW although i waste my time hearing you so cold secret . 🙄
I've struggled with applying the harmonic minor for so long. I can't wait to practice it now.
🙏🙏🙏 yas!
Wonder wha5 country this guy is from very European sounding
Great lesson, thank you!! How do you get that ambient tone for practicing? 😁
It’s an EHX Freeze pedal. There are much cheaper alternatives, google will help you out (edited for spelling)
How do you play A melodic minor over Ab7 when the notes are different?
Thanks! I appreciate your style of teaching, especially your encouragement to really hear the scale 🙏
You re reading notes fa diyez, sol diyez, la, si, do. We re reading notes like this in turkey too. Where did you learn that?
How u sond like piano !? Ist your guitar or a specific pedal?
I thought the natural minor had to played on they way down (flat the 6th and 7th)?
harmonic minor is the hardest to drop on a song to me, even if I know perfectly the fingering, some licks sounds wrong
Hey Rotem I have a silly question since I could just figure it out myself... Do you play the melodic minor differently when defending? Like natural minor? I don't think you are. I'm just a little confused about it because they kept telling us we have to play natural minor when defending the melodic minor. Is it only in classical music and not so much in jazz? Thank you so much for these lessons and your time. You are very passionate and motivating, I finally started working on the melodic minor scale thanks to you. כל טוב.
I think 'haunting' is the word you were looking for.
Killer video as always. Thank you for this.
👌
Awesome video as always I was just listening to your song "Drive" your solo part blow my mind, so f good
❤️❤️🙏🙏 thanks brother
if Im not mistake Gershvin used melodic minor.
D phygrian sucks
Reminds me of a yoga lesson
I was filling in a few years ago in a jazz club on guitar and things were going well. After the gig this old horn fella turns to me and asks if I’m good with my hands. I glance back at the stage and say “haha well, I’d like to think so; how did I do?” He says no, can you build shit? I said well actually I’m a decent handyman and carpenter. He says “my brotha listen to me you good and that’s fine you all over that mug but you need to know the right tool for the job. I didn’t finish my drink I hauled ass home and practiced until my fingers were bleeding under the nails!
lovely
Hey Rotem! Love your videos man! Here and on instagram! Great tips as always! If you don't mind answering me. What do you use to let the note ringing behind? Is it a looper or a delay? Or maybe both for ambience? Thanks man!
So yeah, singing A's is the sh*t.. (😬)... is whats up... is the ........... (wait for it) SH*T 😆
Great vid bro
"we're not trying to master the world"
He said after a zen session in which he taught the language of the gods
So you're saying that over any 7 chord, starting the melodic minor from a half step up is going to give the altered sound? Radical!
What a class!!
When you said close your eyes, I did (wasn't going to) and I really heard that pull at 6 and especially 7. Kind of like when you tune your strings from below the reference note up to the reference note you hear that oscillation until it resolves perfectly.. I didn't hear that when I was watching the first time. Nice lesson, shut out all distraction and use your ears.
thanks for the vids! side question: is the duo sonic worth it?... im all about cheap guitars these days, but it's price point is high enough that im not sure if im better off using the $700ish on a nicer guitar since it's beyond the 'budget' price point
THANKS!
Awesome.. good to see you again! 🙏🏾😎
Thanks Ricky 🙏
So good lesson ever!! Thx a lot ..from INDONESIA 🇲🇨😇
Love the melodic minor such a versatile scale and great sounding. Very thorough and excellent lesson, liking your zen type approach. Always great content from yourself. Worst scale to learn? Getting the sound of the standalone altered scale in my head and the various diminished scales. They're all kinda related so my brain gets in a bit of a tangle! 😂.
8'08'' wauu brividi..
Great content! Subscribed.
And yes, chant those low notes the universe wants to hear you sing.
I thought, the Altered Scale is the 7th Mode (MM7), therefore it should be Melodic Minor in A over a G#7alt chord. Not over A7. Did I make a mistake?
He played Ab7 not an A7 so you are right just got the chord wrong by a half step
So glad to hear Fa diez and Sol diez instead of F sharp and G sharp))
Rotem, great tutorial. What is the guitar you are using in the video? Beautiful instrument.
Great lesson, thank you for taking your time with each note! What guitar are you playing? If Rotem doesn’t answer, does anyone know the name of that guitar? Thank you in advance.
instagram.com/zaleteljguitars?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= this is the maker!
Thank you for the quick response!
haunted?
Sandwich?
This is by far the best explanation of this scale on the internet.
great lesson......wonderful
Anyone else 'hear' the Fargo theme around 4:42? OK just me…
Love it. Thanks
Information like this is why I recently became one of your Patrons! Thanks for posting
Thanks David!!!
The PDF on Patreon is well appreciated, THANKS !
❤️ thank YOU brother!
Grrreat lesson !!!
thank you, Rotem. Love your zenlike approach to guitar, i try to absorb it from you
🙏🧚♀️🙏
Your the best
use it on a 7 5 + ...A 7 5 + you begin on the A its the altered scale ! then you use it on every 7 chord !
i mean two five one ; 2,5,1 ! its great ! on the 5 degree !
Great lesson Rotem!
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謝謝你😭非常詳細的課程
Good video as always rotem. Thank you for the lesson
Thanks!!
רותם יהיו סרטונים בעברית?
לא נראה לי..
I stick to bites, it is better for digestion)
Lol
Do you have videos on all of the modes?
Not yet
@@RotemSivanGuitar Regardless man you have so many so much Harmony and demonstrated Content. they’re very inspiring
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Harmonic minor
LOL
Change from normal minor is so small that I never gave it the attention it needs. Hence I struggle to use it to this day. But your amusment at my comment has given me inspiration to focus on it again!
Whole Tone Scale yuck!!!🧐
Man!!! You are such a good teacher!