In this frankly epic tutorial we're concentrating solely on chords and chordal ideas, and the following will act as a compendium of great chord fingerings. The audio examples start with simple chords ...

Harmonic minor keys are used when writing chords. There is another version of the minor key known as the melodic minor. This is used when writing a melody. Each key signature has two possible keys.

In this video, I walk through my personal routine for practicing altered dominant chords, especially rootless voicings for #5/#9—and the diminished whole-tone scale (a.k.a. the 7th mode of the melodic ...