How to Play the Natural Minor Scale in Jazz Guitar

Video Transcript

" Hi! My name is John Armstrong with expertvillage.com. I am a professional guitar instructor and today we are going to be studying beginning jazz guitar. So far we discussed everything in terms of major keys and now let's maybe discuss a little bit about minor keys. Let's start off by discussing the natural minor scale. For example, if I was to play a A minor natural or pure minor scale, this is done by flatting the 3rd, 6th and the 7th notes of the major scale. Here for example is a 1 octave A natural minor scale, descending okay. Here is an extended form of that, it is beyond a little bit above and beyond 2 octaves. Okay. Next let's take and do some natural minor scales based off of the 5th string. Here's the first one; a D minor, extending that up. There's a couple of different natural minor scale patterns. It is important that you are able to play those scales and move those scales all the way around the neck of the guitar before you try actually writing and or soloing with them. "