Finger exercises to build strength, coordination, and clean fretting from the first session.
Melodic Minor Foundations
Learn classical melodic minor across seven positions: raised 6 and 7 ascending, natural-minor flat 6 and flat 7 descending, with harmony that connects both directions around a stable minor tonic.
Each stage centers one musical target. Its activities stay grouped together so the course reads as a path through the fretboard, not a list of disconnected drills.
MechanicsScalesArpeggiosChordsProgressionsJams
- Stages
- 7
- Lessons
- 41
- Targets
- 412
Stage path
Classical Melodic Minor stays visible as the parent map while each stage shifts the harmonic target and adds the positions needed for that sound.
Establish Position 1 with raised 6 and 7 on ascending legs, natural-minor flat 6 and flat 7 on descending legs, and a stable i backing chord.
5Tracks5Lessons15Targets
Center the Classical Melodic Minor map on i(mMaj7) while connecting ascending and descending sequences across Position 1.
Isolate the stage chord tones across the cumulative parent-map positions.
Connect the new position to its characteristic seventh-chord sound.
Turn the first scale, arpeggio, and tonic-chord shapes into four-bar phrases.
Add Position 3 and V7, using harmonic minor's raised seventh to create a reliable cadence into i.
6Tracks6Lessons30Targets
Finger exercises to build strength, coordination, and clean fretting from the first session.
Center the Classical Melodic Minor map on V7 while connecting ascending and descending sequences across Positions 1 + 3.
Isolate the stage chord tones across the cumulative parent-map positions.
Connect the new position to its characteristic seventh-chord sound.
Practice short cadences that preserve each chord's authored minor-scale source.
Solo over the stage harmony while preserving the course's tonic-centered parent map.
Add Position 5 and IV7, making the ascending raised sixth audible before it moves through V7 to i.
6Tracks6Lessons43Targets
Finger exercises to build strength, coordination, and clean fretting from the first session.
Center the Classical Melodic Minor map on IV7 while connecting ascending and descending sequences across Positions 1 + 3 + 5.
Isolate the stage chord tones across the cumulative parent-map positions.
Connect the new position to its characteristic seventh-chord sound.
Practice short cadences that preserve each chord's authored minor-scale source.
Solo over the stage harmony while preserving the course's tonic-centered parent map.
Add Position 2 and iv7, contrasting the descending flat-six color with the raised-six IV7 learned one stage earlier.
6Tracks6Lessons55Targets
Finger exercises to build strength, coordination, and clean fretting from the first session.
Center the Classical Melodic Minor map on iv7 while connecting ascending and descending sequences across Positions 1 + 2 + 3 + 5.
Isolate the stage chord tones across the cumulative parent-map positions.
Connect the new position to its characteristic seventh-chord sound.
Practice short cadences that preserve each chord's authored minor-scale source.
Solo over the stage harmony while preserving the course's tonic-centered parent map.
Add Position 4 and compare ascending ii7 with descending iiø7 in two honest minor-key ii–V–i cadences.
6Tracks6Lessons99Targets
Finger exercises to build strength, coordination, and clean fretting from the first session.
Center the Classical Melodic Minor map on ii7 / iiø7 while connecting ascending and descending sequences across Positions 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5.
Compare both supertonic chord-tone sets without changing the parent lead map.
Compare the raised-direction and natural-minor seventh-chord options.
Practice short cadences that preserve each chord's authored minor-scale source.
Solo over the stage harmony while preserving the course's tonic-centered parent map.
Add Position 7 and VImaj7, bringing the descending flat-six sound into iiø7–V7–i turnarounds.
6Tracks6Lessons79Targets
Finger exercises to build strength, coordination, and clean fretting from the first session.
Center the Classical Melodic Minor map on VImaj7 while connecting ascending and descending sequences across Positions 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 7.
Isolate the stage chord tones across the cumulative parent-map positions.
Connect the new position to its characteristic seventh-chord sound.
Practice short cadences that preserve each chord's authored minor-scale source.
Solo over the stage harmony while preserving the course's tonic-centered parent map.
Add Position 6 and VII7, completing all seven positions by integrating the descending flat-seven sound with VI and V7.
6Tracks6Lessons91Targets
Finger exercises to build strength, coordination, and clean fretting from the first session.
Center the Classical Melodic Minor map on VII7 while connecting ascending and descending sequences across all seven positions.
Isolate the stage chord tones across the cumulative parent-map positions.
Connect the new position to its characteristic seventh-chord sound.
Practice short cadences that preserve each chord's authored minor-scale source.
Solo over the stage harmony while preserving the course's tonic-centered parent map.