F Melodic Minor Licks

In this free jazz guitar lesson we're going to expand on our first lesson on the F Melodic Minor Scale. We will learn some licks to play over the backing track "Bb static dominant" which is track 10 from the Let's Jam! Jazz & Blues CD. This track is a one chord vamp on Bb7.

Watch the lesson: Quicktime

Here's the F Melodic Minor scale.

F melodic minor scale

Now let's learn a lick using this scale.

lick 1

Now here is another lick

lick 2

And here is our final lick using this scale

lick 3

Now let’s try playing these licks over track 10 of the Let's Jam! Jazz & Blues CD.

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