Scale Fluency: Harmonic Minor Modes

By Graham Tippett

The scale behind the Spanish sound

Harmonic minor is where Phrygian Dominant comes from, along with a large amount of jazz and classical vocabulary and most of what people mean by "that Spanish sound." Plenty of guitarists can play one position of it. Very few have it mapped across the neck the way they have the major scale.

A practice guide for the whole scale and all its modes

Specific one- and two-octave approaches, worked vertically and horizontally, applied to harmonic minor and every one of its modes in all twelve keys. Not patterns to memorise in isolation - a method for practising them until the whole scale is one continuous picture.

Phrygian Dominant alone justifies the work. Having the rest of the modes available alongside it is what turns an exotic-sounding option into something you can actually build lines from.

Ninety days, honestly

Three months or so of committed practice. The work is repetitive, deliberately, and there's no shortcut version of it.

Who it's for

Players who already have the major scale modes solid and want harder harmonic territory. Anyone who reaches for Phrygian Dominant and can only find it in one place.

Book 3 of Scale Fluency. Best approached once the major scale modes are secure - the patterns carry over, so the groundwork is already done.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08DSR7HDR
• ISBN13: 9798670420044
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 46 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"