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The Melodic Minor Scale is one of those scales that can be

used to explain what we call chord scale theory and jazz improvisation. And melodic minor scale

sounds like this. It's essentially like the mixture of a minor scale and a major scale, having the major third included in it.

And you can do all sorts of different cool things playing the melodic minor scale in different sorts of ways over top of different kinds of chords.

Well, in today's episode, I want to simplify all of that.

Forget about all of the

possibilities that you could use the melodic minor scale and jazz improvisation and narrow it down

to three that I think will be really helpful for you for using the melodic minor scale. Let's jump

right into it.

Okay. All right. What's everybody? Brent here. I am a jazz coach. I am a jazz musician. I'm here to help you learn how to play jazz while shortening the learning curve no matter what instrument you play. Welcome to another episode

of the podcast. Really excited to be here. Now, the other week in our monthly jazz masterminds,

which are live Q&A sessions that we do in my inner circle membership.

Someone asked a really interesting question, and that question was, how can I use the melodic

minor scale in jazz improvisation? What chords can I play the melodic minor scale over to help me

improvise? I thought it was a great question because as I mentioned in the intro,

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