If you’re a regular reader, you know that we’ve been on minor scales and chords for about a week.<\/p>\nIf you’re a regular reader, you know that we’ve been on minor scales and chords for about a week.<\/p>\n
First you learned the ins and outs of the natural minor scale<\/a>. Then I gave you a pop quiz on them in this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n When you thought it was over, I introduced a minor chord progression<\/a> found commonly in salsa music.<\/p>\n Then we took it a step further and studied harmonic minor scales<\/a>. <\/p>\n And yesterday, we learned the melodic minor scale<\/a>.<\/p>\n (Sorry for bombarding you with links. I just thought it’d be a good idea to catch you up just in case you missed one of my prior posts).<\/p>\n Today, I’m going to introduce you to the corresponding chords of the harmonic minor scale.<\/p>\n As you know, the harmonic minor scale is basically the same as the natural minor scale except that it has a raised 7th tone.<\/p>\n C natural minor C harmonic minor You’ve already learned the corresponding chords of the natural minor scale in prior posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n Now, let’s build the chords for the harmonic scale.<\/p>\n All we do is start from the first tone of the scale and play every other note. This creates block chords<\/a>
\nC D Eb F G Ab Bb C<\/p>\n
\nC D Eb F G Ab B C<\/p><\/blockquote>\n