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How to Use Minor 7th Chords in Melodies on the Saxophone

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Summary: Minor 7th chords on the saxophone are typically used to create a sad or melancholy tone in jazz, blues or classical melodies. Learn more about how to use minor 7th chords in saxophone melodies in this free music lesson on video.

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Miyanna Nielsen Mariane “Miyanna” Nielsen has been teaching and playing the saxophone professionally for over twenty years. Her skills and experience include jazz, meringue,... read more

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How to Use Minor 7th Chords in Melodies on the Saxophone

MIYANNA NIELSEN: Melodically speaking, the minor scale represents sadness or depression or your boyfriend or your girlfriend leaving you or what have you. It's most typically represented in the blues scale in a jazz sense or a minor scale in the jazz sense. It's also used to evoke the deepest of melancholies in the classical idiom as well, and sometimes it just means that you're in kind of in an angry mood too, or simply serious for that matter.

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