Name: 如何即興演奏爵士鋼琴。第二部分：小調音階。 (How to Improvise Jazz Piano. Part 2. Minor Scales.)
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Hello and welcome to inside piano video tutorials

On our last video we talked about the bebop scale

And how to use it improvise  over a 2, 5, 1 chord progression

We also played an unusual jazz melodic minor scale

Today’s video is about improvising in minor chords

so will go over those melodic minor scales in more detail.

Before we start, I want to thank all of you subscribers

for the nice comments and likes but mostly for remaining engaged

with the videos and asking those wonderful questions

There are several melodic minor scales and that’s why it gets confusing

There is the Classical Melodic Minor Scale

and then,  there are variations of the scales as well

The  classical melodic minor scale ascends using the major seventh

Then there’s jazz melodic minor which uses just the major seventh

But if we want to improvise fluently we need to move beyond those book scales

Because when we talk about improvisation those scales form the books

won’t help us very much and I’ll tell you why

When we improvise we need  scales that we can sustain

playing up and down the keyboard without loosing our balance

The problem with the regular jazz melodic minor scale

is just like with the Mixolydian scale they are rhythmically odd,

They work fine within the confines an octave but when we play pass that octave

But when we play pass that octave everything starts falling apart.

To solve this issue we have the  yet another melodic minor scale

The Bebop melodic minor scale  solves that Rhythmically unevenness

by adding the minor 7th as a passing tone

and it works great for any number of octaves

This is nice because we play with both the major and minor 7th

but it does not have the major 3rd passing tone

which is another important jazz color we need to use

I’m going to show you a variation of the bebop melodic minor scale

to take advantage of that major and minor 3rd

as the bebop melodic minor does but it descends as the dominant bebop scale

This scale is common  on the bebop language

The great thing about this scale is that it allows us

to go up and down the keyboard with our loosing our balance

The other variation we used on our last video

is a variation of the melodic minor scale

In this variation  the scale ascends as the melodic minor does

and descends as the bebop scale does passing through the minor 7th

to achieve this we play the scale up to the 9

and we can also play it  up and down the keyboard

But playing scales is like reciting all the letters of the alphabet

what we need to do  is to use those letters to say words

let's grab a minor chord progression and improvise over it

our first instinct is to analyze the material we have available

but really, again... all these scales are like reciting the whole alphabet

every minor chord shares a relationship by extension

with a minor chord found a 5th above its root

now, look what happens when we play the Dm7 and Am7 arpeggio