Harmonic Minor Modes In Motion - The Nocelli Guitar Method

By Lucien Nocelli

Harmonic Minor Modes In Motion presents the modes in an innovative new way, allowing you to fully understand and master the guitar fretboard, achieving ultimate soloing ability. You will be able to perform with much more speed, articulation and fretboard memorization of each mode. Once perfected, the ease and smoothness of the Harmonic Minor Modes In Motion will amaze you. - INCLUDES - 63 Precise Mode Finger Forms in TAB & Musical Notation - Individual Chord Patterns For All Style of Music - Formatted Exercises - Guide to Transposing to Other Keys - www.LucienNocelli.com

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Mar 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9781458367198

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INTRODUCTION

Many guitarists are trying to learn as many different scales as they can, however, they are not completely understanding the modes (scales), their fingerings, and how and where to use them. The Harmonic Minor modes are one of the most useful tools in a Jazz / Jazz Fusion / Progressive Rock guitar player’s tool kit. These modes are most powerful when used over altered chords to cohesively voice lead within the tension which altered chords create. Also, they are used over non-altered chords to deliberately add tension.

Since the Harmonic Minor scale is in the minor scale family, the word harmonic signifies something different than the Natural Minor scale. This scale can be thought of as a Natural Minor scale with a raised seventh degree (one half step) which on the guitar means one fret.

The Harmonic Minor scale, from a historic perspective, was used by classical composers to add strength and power from the V (fifth) chord to the i (one) chord in a minor composition. This means melodies from this new scale Harmonic Minor was used over the newly revised V (fifth) chord dominant 7th chord before resolving to the i (one) minor chord.

In Jazz and Rock, this scale and it’s modes are used in a variety of situations to add harmonic texture and tension to a wide range of chords. In the Jazz language and other styles used in this book, this scale and its modes are used in both ascending and descending directions.

This book is a complete formulated mode (scale) system that will take you out of the conventional guitar playing style and put you in a new dimension of guitar playing. (From this point on a SCALE will be referred to as a MODE). It will change the way you think about modes and their chord relations. This system is called Harmonic Minor Modes In Motion.

The goal of this book is to teach you to connect and blend mode forms into each other while logically covering the entire fretboard, thus allowing you to get the most out of your playing. You will also learn to use the correct modes over various different chords and their progressions, and ways to always determine what modes over what chords.

This method is for the guitarist just beginning to learn modes, as well as the professional. This will discipline your mode playing and bring you to a new awakening. It seems that every student starting to learn modes eventually asks me this dreaded question: Why bother learning all the modes when they are just different starting points of a harmonic minor scale and if I play the harmonic minor scale, I’ll be playing the modes anyway? I give them all the same explanation: Modes are created by the sound of the position and placement of a mode in motion. The motion of a mode is created by properly and logically playing the Mode Finger Form (from now on abbreviated MFF).

You will learn that this mode system moves in a FORWARD motion up the fretboard, unlike the conventional methods so frequently taught. They connect smoothly into each other so you will be forced to learn the forward motion of the modes which will prove beneficial when soloing and in general playing.

You will be able to perform with much