Ok I'm going to sort this problem Ive had once and for all! If someone here will help that is

I watched a video on you tube of some teacher playing the F melodic minor over a chord vamp. Now I would expect the chord to be the Fminor, but the chord is B7 - the IV chord of the key.

So does this change the the Fmelodic minor scale into a different scale because the root note is th B? Would this be the 4th mode of the Fmelodic minor scale?


Here is a link to the video in case I'm making no sense at all http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVH3QVJys8o



The way I see it, if I played the natural minor scale starting and ending on A over an Aminor chord, this would be an Aeolian scale. If I played the same scale but changed the chord underneath it to a Dminor, then the scale would become a Dorian mode.




Can someone please help me get my head round this!!!


Thanks!

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I dunno but I had to watch a behemoth video to ungay my brain from that guy.

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Yes, it'd be the 4th mode of the scale- shouldn't it be a Bb though?

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Yeh I meant Bb sorry.

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