Converting to minor

[ragman1]

Pat for sure applies it over a whole tune.

What, just one? :-)

[Mick-7]

Imagine if Holdsworth had had ChatGPT5 to compile his 'reams of notes' to get permutations of melodic minor modes.

He did in fact use a prototype of it called "Nicolas Slonimsky."

[MiniMerckx.22]

Why limit yourself to just minor? Check out Garrison Fewell's A Melodic Approach and convert in and out of major, minor, augmented and diminished, diatonic and non diatonic triads however you see fit.

[pamosmusic]

Why limit yourself to just minor? Check out Garrison Fewell's A Melodic Approach and convert in and out of major, minor, augmented and diminished, diatonic and non diatonic triads however you see fit.

My son is learning to read and today I asked him why he's limiting himself to one syllable words. Why not two and three syllable words, however he sees fit?

I'm being snarky.

But -- apart from some hardcore partisans like Pat** -- the idea isn't to limit yourself, but to pick something and do it instead of trying to do too much at once and leaving with very little workable vocabulary.

And why start with minor? You don't have to.

But minor ideas sit really well on the guitar. They also have a harmonic flexibility that some other stuff lacks (play 7 or b7? 6 or b6? blue note or no?). And they sound like real jazz -- I don't know why that is, but play Lester Leaps In and then play the Cry Me a River lick and tell me which one makes you feel hipper.

So there are a lot of good reasons to start there. But the idea is not that you should end there too.

**some of Pat's rigidness to the concepts almost certainly comes back to his experience relearning the guitar after his injury. The system was more efficient.

[Tal_175]

In the phase III of linear expressions, Pat shows playing minors into each other. They are minor thirds and half notes apart. True to form, he never explains the purpose. This maybe a bit cryptic but one possible application is identical to playing Barry Harris family of dominants into each other to create lines with various dominant flavors and resolving them to targets. Only with the related minors instead of dominants.