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    Fretboard fluency

    Apr 08, 2020 3 minutes

    Welcome to this month’s Fretboard Fluency, with the eighth part in our series on the Harmonic Minor scale (R-2- b 3-4-5- b 6-7), which can can also be visualised as Natural Minor with a maj7th.

    Over the course of the series, we’ve looked at the five Harmonic Minor shapes based around the CAGED system, as well as the harmonised scale which consists of a family of seven diatonic chords, arpeggios and modes. More recently, we’ve been focusing on the fifth and most commonly used mode – Phrygian Dominant:

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