Best Jazz Improv Exercise To Practice The Altered Scale. Jazz Tutorial

Bassists know scales too 🤓 Altered scale is a dominant scale that can be played over a variety of dominant chords (ex.A7). It consists of: Root - minor 2 - augmented 2 - Major 3 - Augmented 4/Diminished 5 - Augmented 5/Minor 6 - Minor 7 The Major 3 with the Minor 7 makes this a dominant scale. But as we can see…all other intervals are altered (not major or perfect). Which makes this a very interesting scale with a very “out”/modern sound. In this example we see it being used over a A7 chord res

Altered Scales Explained + All 5 altered dominant scale guitar patterns (super locrian)