JAZZ MELODIC MINOR MAGIC ©

Theory in a Thimble Music Series ©

Master Your Instrument - Master Your Music
Book Fifteen (B)
Allan Brandon Hill © 2016
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 “If you know the scale for each chord, it’s impossible to play a wrong
note.” Ernie Watts
Table of Contents
Introduction
Definition
How to Use

C JAZZ MELODIC MINOR

F Jazz Melodic Minor
Bb JAZZ MELODIC MINOR
Eb Jazz Melodic Minor
Ab JAZZ MELODIC MINOR
Db Jazz Melodic Minor
Gb JAZZ MELODIC MINOR
B Jazz Melodic Minor
E JAZZ MELODIC MINOR
A Jazz Melodic Minor
D JAZZ MELODIC MINOR
G Jazz Melodic Minor

Supplemental Material
Key Cycle s
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 "Jazz is a complete lifestyle, something that you feel, something that you
live." Ray Brown
Introduction
Jazz Melodic Minor Magic is a reference aid for musicians interested in
jazz and the art of jazz improvisation. It is designed to help you easily grasp
the idea of “chord-scale compatibility;” an important feature of jazz which
incorporates the idea that a sequence of chords will generate a sequence of
compatible scales. When improvising, jazz musicians often use the modes of
the ascending melodic minor scale, one of many important scales used in
jazz performance.
Jazz Melodic Minor Magic includes graphic displays of all 12 ascending
melodic minor scales and their modes in both letter-name and notation.
Supplemental material includes graphic displays which illustrate and reveal
the hidden relationships of scale tones around the cycle.
Jazz Melodic Minor Magic is crafted:
• to help you improve your musicianship,
• to supplement, not replace, your current teaching and learning resources,
• to allow you to easily grasp fundamental scale and chord relationships,
• to accelerate your comprehension through visualization,
• to accommodate differences in learning and teaching styles for all
instrumentalists and vocalists.
 "Jazz music doesn't have an expiration date." Anon
Definitions: Jazz improvisation is the process of spontaneously creating
fresh melodies over the continuously repeating cycle of chord changes of a
tune.
Source: https://www.apassion4jazz.net/improvisation.html
A great deal of modern jazz harmony arises from the modes of the
ascending form of the melodic minor scale, also known as the jazz melodic
minor scale . This scale is essentially a diatonic major scale with a flatted
third, for example C D E ♭ F G A B C. As with any other scale, the modes
are derived from playing the scale from different root notes, causing a
series of jazz scales to emerge. Source :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_scale#Modes_of_the_melodic_minor_sc
ale; Baerman, Noah (1998). Complete Jazz Keyboard Method: Mastering
Jazz Keyboard, p.34.
Masters of the Subject : https://www.arts.gov/honors/jazz
More info here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEA_Jazz_Masters
HowToUse
The following pages are graphic, musical representations of the Jazz
Melodic Minor scale, its modes, scale-chords and more.
Each scale is graphically displayed:
• by letter-name diatonically
• in 3rds & 4ths (diagonally)
• in Mode (Dorian b2, Lydian aug., etc.)
• by chord degree
• with chord symbol
• in music notation.
Play each scale-chord from root to the 13th to hear it's distinctive sound
and do the same with each mode.
Cycle of 4ths/5ths - graphic representations of all 12 keys - see More
MAGIC here.
The Cycle of Fourths is a representation of all 12 notes in the chromatic
scale, arranged into a circle. It’s most commonly used to easily find the
notes in any major or minor key, but it can also give the student a solid
intuition of chord progressions." Source: https://deftdigits.com
"The Circle (cycle) of Fifths a visual way to learn the sharps and flats in
each key signature, as well as the relationships between different keys.
Arranging pitches create the circle of fifths in intervals of ascending fifths,
in a clock-like pattern. Some musicians prefer it arranged in the circle of
fourths; fourths and fifths are inverse intervals. That is, from any note,
going up a fifth and going down a fourth will bring you to the same pitch—
just an octave apart. This means that the circle of fourths is really just the
circle of fifths, reversed. " Source : https://makingmusicmag.com
TIP:
"To get from one key on the circle to the next (going the counter-clockwise
direction of C to F to Bb to Eb and so on), just take the 7th note of any
scale, lower it a half step, and that gives you the ONLY difference between
the current scale and the next one on the circle." Jermaine Griggs -
Founder: HearandPlay.com
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 "One of the things I like about Jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to
happen next." Bix Beiderbecke
C JAZZ MELODIC MINOR MATRIX
 "Nothing will stop you from being creative so effectively as the fear of
making a mistake." John Cleese
F JAZZ MELODIC MINOR MATRIX
 “Master your instrument, master the music and then forget all that…and
just play.” Charlie Parker
Bb JAZZ MELODIC MINOR MATRIX
 When you're playing the blues in all keys, you’re playing every II V7 I,
every III VI II V7 I and every IV chord in every key.” Joe Lovano
Eb JAZZ MELODIC MINOR MATRIX
 "The true beauty of music is that it connects people." Roy Ayers
Ab JAZZ MELODIC MINOR MATRIX
 “ Do not fear mistakes. There are none . ” Miles Davis
Db JAZZ MELODIC MINOR MATRIX
 “Technique is the ability to translate your ideas into sound through your
instrument . ” Bill Evans
Gb JAZZ MELODIC MINOR MATRIX
“I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession”
Billie Holiday
B JAZZ MELODIC MINOR MATRIX
 “Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom.” Charlie
Parker
E JAZZ MELODIC MINOR MATRIX
“I t ’ s the group sound tha t ’ s important, even when yo u ’ re playing a
solo . ” Oscar Peterson
A JAZZ MELODIC MINOR MATRIX
 “Everyone has a very personal musical voice somewhere in them that the
rest of us want to hear.”
Lenny Pickett
D JAZZ MELODIC MINOR MATRIX
 “When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do
something really good for people.”
John Coltrane
G JAZZ MELODIC MINOR MATRIX
 "I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it."
Diana Krall
Supplemental Material
Key Cycles

C Key Cycle
"Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live." Ray Brown

F Key Cycle
 "A Jazz musician is someone that puts a $5,000 horn in a $500 car and
drives 50 miles for $5 gig." Anon

Bb Key Cycle
 "Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers.
There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape." Gary Burton

Eb Key Cycle
 "Jazz music is an aural souvenir of mankind's attempt to express the
intangible,
the heart, the soul, through art." Maxwell Chandler

Ab Key Cycle
"If I don't practice for a day, I know it... for two days, the critics know it...
three days, the public knows it." Louis Armstrong

Db Key Cycle
"Jazz music means many things to many people, but it's all about choices."
Terri Lyne Carrington

Gb Key Cycle
 "Jazz music has always been a place where anything is possible." Bill
Evans

B Key Cycle
 "Don't give up trying to do what you really want. Where there is love &
inspiration,
I don't think you can go wrong." Ella Fitzgerald

E Key Cycle
 "Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself."
Miles Davis

A Key Cycle
The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how
to listen Edward "Duke" Ellington

D Key Cycle
"You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to
play with musicians that are better than you." Stan Getz

G Key Cycle
 "Forgive me if I don’t have the words. Maybe I can sing it and you’ll
understand" Ella Fitzgerald
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 "... the teaching of jazz is a very touchy point. It ends up where the jazz
player, ultimately,
if he's going to be a serious jazz player, teaches himself." Bill Evans

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