Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Some C Melodic Minor exercises

I recently started practicing the Graham Clark Scale Method on viola and guitar. I am convinced that this method will help me nail down the intervals that I want to play, with less time wasted searching for the interval in the fingerboard. The examples in his article are written for C Major. C Melodic Minor is new to me, so I decided to write down some exercises from his method for C Melodic Minor.

This is the first set of exercises for the modes of the scale:









Note sequenceMode
CDEbFGABC' C'BAGFEbDCC Melodic Minor
DEbFGABC'D DC'BAGFEbDDorian b2 or Phrygian #6
EbFGABC'DEb EbDC'BAGFEbLydian Augmented
FGABC'DEbF FEbDC'BAGFLydian Dominant
GABC'DEbFG GFEbDC'BAGMixolydian ♭6
ABC'DEbFGA AGFEbDC'BAAeolian b5
BC'DEbFGAB BAGFEbDC'BAltered Dominant

With the above note sequences written down, it's much easier to extrapolate the degree-to-root note pairs to practice for that section of the GC Method.

Here are the broken interval exercises for C Melodic Minor:







Note sequenceInterval
CEb DF EbG FA GB AC' BD' C' Eb'C' D'B C'A BG AF GEb FD C3rds
CF DG EbA FB GC' AD' BEb' C' F'C' Eb'B D'A C'G BF AEb GD FC4ths
CG DA EbB FC' GD' AEb' BF' C' G'C' F'B Eb'A D'G C'F BEb AD GC5ths
CA DB EbC' FD' GEb' AF' BG' C' A'C' G'B F'A Eb'G D'F C'Eb BD AC6ths
CB DC' EbD' FEb' GF' AG' BA' C' B'C' A'B G'A F'G Eb'F D'Eb CD BC7ths


Here are the triad exercises for C Melodic Minor:









TriadChord
C Eb Gi minor
D F Aii minor
Eb G Biii
F A C'iv
G B D'v
A C' Eb'vi
B D' F'vii

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