Here’s the harmonised A Melodic Minor scale arranged in various cycles.
The last three are the reverse of the first three, but you knew that already because you were looking for patterns, eh?
So, one interesting thing to do with this is to voice-lead it.
Pick a voicing for the A-∆, say, 1 7 b3 5 (5 x 6 5 5 x), and move to the next chord with the least amount of movement.
Do that for all the cycles.
How many notes change/stay the same in each cycle?
E.g., for Cycle 3 and 6, only one note changes when you move to the next chord.
So if you wanted to make the exercise easy, start with those ones :)
Crawl along the fretboard doing all the inversions.
Think ahead to what the next chord in the cycle is.
Do it in time.
Ah, a bonus chord. Esus4(?) or whatever you’d like to call it. A real monster stretch but very nice! Thanks
Ah, that’s interesting. Relating all the sounds to one sound. Thanks for that :)
0 2 6 2 5 7
Been puzzling over (5 x 6 5 5 x)… eventually I realized it was the frets and strings, doh! I did each cycle over a vamp of the first chord. Some very nice sounds pop out. I also love some of the inversions that come out of the second exercise. Thanks, I could probably spend a few weeks on each page!