Harmonic Minor Modes - Aeolian #7 - Diatonic Substitutions - Mode 1

C Harmonic Minor starting on C =  C, D, Eb, F, G,  Ab, B, C, D,  Eb,  F,   G,   Ab,  B,   C

C Aeolian #7 scale numbers =        1, 2, b3, 4   5,  b6,  7, 8, 9, b10, 11, 12, b13, 14, 15

Notice that 2/9, 4/11, b6/b13 are the same notes. They are the same thing.

Get use to them being referred to both ways. This one number system applies to all keys!

Now lets take every other note in a group of three, four, five, six, and seven notes.

3 notes   = C, Eb, G                   = C minor                                                 (Cm)

4 notes   = C, Eb, G, B               = C minor maj seventh                              (Cm maj7)

5 notes   = C, Eb, G, B, D           = C minor maj seventh add ninth               (Cm maj7/9)

6 notes   = C, Eb, G, B, D, F       = C minor maj seventh add ninth/eleventh (Cm maj7/9/11)                      

7 notes   = C, Eb, G, B, D, F, Ab = C minor maj seventh add ninth/eleventh/flat thirteenth    (Cm maj7/9/11/b13)

Other common minor chords:

(small m means minor - also / means to add those 

additional notes to the original 3 note chord or triad)

Cm/9                    = C, Eb, G, D

Cm/11                  = C, Eb, G, F

Cm maj7/11          = C, Eb, G, B, F

Cm maj7/b13        = C, Eb, G, B, Ab

Cm maj7/9/b13     = C, Eb, G, B, D, Ab

Cm maj7/11/b13    = C, Eb, G, B, F, Ab

Cm/b6                   = C, Eb, G, Ab

Cm/b6/9               = C, Eb, G, Ab, D

Cm/b6/11              = C, Eb, G, Ab, F

Cm/b6/9/11          = C, Eb, G, Ab, D, F

Cm maj7+              = C, Eb, Ab, B

Cm maj7+/9           = C, Eb, Ab, B, D

Cm maj7+/9/11      = C, Eb, Ab, B, D, F

Aeolian #7 chord progression key of C harmonic minor:

Original progression  - Cm //// Fm //// Do //// G ////     (i, iv, iio, V)  

Now with sub chords  - Cm maj7+ //// Fm7 //// Dm7b5 //// G7//// (i maj7+,iv7,iio7b5,V7)  

 

You can use any of the 4 note chords to replace the 3 note chords.

You can use any of the C minor chords in this lesson to sub for the i of the C Aeolian #7 mode.

I will expand on this in greater detail later but for now go back to all the Aeolian #7 chord progressions previously given (Harmonic Minor Modes - Aeolian #7 - Mode 1) and sub the 4 note chords for the 3 note chords and sub the i chord with the new i chords from this lesson.

You can use all notes when multi-tracking.