While understanding the method of building them is what's most important, it is also helpful for students to know what they look like. I hope you find the harmonic minor scale and other piano scales and chords useful in your music studio. Then backwards.ĭoing the arpeggios in 'chunks' like this will give them another practice technique for their 'toolbag'.īelow is an interesting Youtube video which seeks to explain the difference between regular natural minor, and the harmonic minor scale:

Then jump in, playing just one octave, making the A's match the metronome. And further extended chords will be min (Maj9) and other 9ths based on their position and chord degree. The VI can be used as a maj7 and the diminished can both be used with a 7th like m7b5 or dim7. Listen to the metronome go 'Tic - Tic - Tic' while you say '1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3,' each '1' coordinated with a tic, waiting to 'jump' in like a child jumping rope. If you have an imin (Maj7) then you will want to play a harmonic scale over it. Set the metronome for 60 or so (about 3 times the speed of 200, or a little less). Start hands separate, even if they can easily do hands together arpeggios. Matching the metronome can be a struggle for some kids. When they get fast enough with arpeggios that we leave the one-tic-per-note behind (when 208 is not fast enough) and we need to do three notes for each tic of the metronome, that can be intimidating or even irritating.

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