Melodic Minor: Revealed

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Summary: Very nice supplement to scale practice
Review: I was introduced to Don Mock when I attended GIT in 1987. He's a cool teacher, kinda' campy at times, but a good player who knows his stuff well. This book is a nice supplement to just learning the patterns of the melodic minor. In the book and on the CD Don shows some nice examples of playing the scale in a variety of different situations and explains where the scale works, etc. Though no one really _needs_ this book if they already have an idea of how to play and use the melodic minor, it's a really nice way to break the monotony of standard scale practice when you're trying to expand your playing beyond just the standard major scales.

The book is pretty cheaply made, held together by staples. The CD is held in by the staples, so you have to bend them some to remove the CD. The case for the CD is made out of thick paper. The CD play time is about 20-30 minutes in total. The book is pretty small, would be even smaller if there was no tab (and if there were no ultra cheesy detective cartoons and photos of Don in a trench coat, making him look like a character in a porno) so there's not a ton of actual content ... about 15-20 pages in all, so try to avoid paying full retail if you can.