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Playing over Changes Pt 2 - Altered Chords

Tom Quayle 164 lessons

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Okay, our final chord type is named an altered dominant chords. If you've seen my other melodic minor tutorial you'll know that an altered dominant is a dominant chord that contains any of the following intervals in any combination, b5, #5, b9, #9. 

From G examples could be G7#5b9, G7#9, G7#5#9 etc.

The scale we use over altered dominants is the superlocrian scale, also known as the altered scale. This is the 7th mode of melodic minor.

Here's the chart!

Chord Scale
7b5 (not #11!)
Superlocrian Scale from Root
7#5 Superlocrian Scale from Root
7b9 Superlocrian Scale from Root
7#9 Superlocrian Scale from Root
7b5#9 Superlocrian Scale from Root
7b5b9 Superlocrian Scale from Root
7#5b9 Superlocrian Scale from Root
7#5#9 Superlocrian Scale from Root
7alt Superlocrian Scale from Root
7+9 (same as #9) Superlocrian Scale from Root
7+5 (same as #5) Superlocrian Scale from Root
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