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Rolling Home To You
D min looks like a D min 7 with a flatted 6 th. So can it just be called a D min?
What I do while practicing these scales is to say the note as I am playing it and in both directions. Going up is easy but going down is challenging.
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Tony often shortens the chord naming to the basic structure like C or D or whatever so I say, “Whatever floats your boat!”. In my head I do the same.
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So when you see D min 7 b6 you play Dm instead. And your boat develops a leak. They are not the same!
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Your are correct. They re not the same. I do it in my head to make the chord progression easier (like an acronym) but I play chord as a Dm7. When finger picking an instrumental piece this keeps me on track with the big picture for what is happening. That comes from my love of the Nashville numbering system to simplify what is going on.
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Finally, if I play a D min scale with a dominate 7th or a D min scale with a b7th and leave the 6th alone they both do not sound as pleasing to my ear as the D min scale offered here. Nuff said….
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Oops caught myself….where I said Dominate 7th I meant major 7th….
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