B Harmonic Minor Scale
This lesson we will learn the Harmonic Minor scale, what it is, how to build it and how to use it!
B Harmonic Minor
Jam Track and Video
You can find the Jam Track used in the video here. It is an idea from a new tripfuse song.
The video uses the B Harmonic Minor Scale and some Diminished Arpeggios.
B Harmonic Minor
The Harmonic Minor scale is a minor scale with a raised 7th degree.
So since B Minor is relative to D major it already has two sharps (F#, C#) and then the 7th degree is an A which will get raised to A#.
There are a number of ways we can figure out what notes would be in a B Harmonic Minor Scale. For this lesson, we are going to compare it to a B Minor Scale.
If you have been working through the lesson you probably now know how to find any Major Scales relative Minor. If not, you might want to review Lesson 5
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B Minor
(Also known as B Natural Minor)
B minor is relative to D major which has two sharps (F# and C#)
B Minor
So a bit of a dilemma: this lesson would ideally be in both the improvising section and the scale section. I could just duplicate the page I suppose. Maybe that makes the most sense.
Actually thinking about it more, maybe that doesn't make a lot of sense either because every scale page is ideally going to have a jam track to practice the scale along with and work on improvising.
The difference I suppose would be that the scale page will only have one scale and jam track, where on the improv page there could be multiple scales, arpeggios, chords etc.
Gmaj7 to F#7
148 BPM
Bossa Nova Feel
4 Measures/Bars Each
Lesson covers:
- Gmaj7th arpeggio in 7th position and
- F#7 in 6th position.
- B minor scale (3 notes/string) in 7th
- B Harmonic Minor (3 notes/string) in 7th
Hotel California is another fun progression to play the B Harmonic Minor Scale over: