How to Improvise Jazz Piano. Part 2. Minor Scales.

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How to play jazz piano over minor chords and minor chord progressions, including a minor blues. The use of broken chords and scales to build a real improvisational dialog.

In this video:
🎵 The main minor scales: natural, dorian, harmonic, pentatonic, blues, and melodic.
🎵 The difference between classical, jazz, and bebop melodic minor -- and why the book versions fall short for improvisation.
🎵 The bebop melodic minor scale: how it resolves rhythmic inconsistency by adding the b7 as a passing tone.
🎵 A variation combining ascending melodic minor with descending dominant bebop, adding the major 3rd as an additional passing tone.
🎵 How to break scales into related chord arpeggios to build real musical phrases over Gm and Dm.
🎵 Applying all these elements over a minor blues in Dm.

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