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

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↗ Altered scales. What are they? Also called the altered dominant scale or the super locrian scale, the altered scale is a mode of melodic minor & awesome for improvising with over dominant chords.
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Weekly Lesson #95
LESSON CONTENT OUTLINE WITH TIMESTAMP LINKS:
0:00 - Guitar playing intro
0:35 - About the lesson
1:41 - About the channel
2:11 - Theory of the Altered Scale
6:47 - Where parent scale it comes from
8:41 - The forms/positions of the scale
12:11 - Demonstrating the scale over a backing track
13:57 - Notes on the playing
15:16 - Few more notes about the lesson
16:55 - Using melodic patterns
17:58 - Question
19:27 - Outro
LINKS & LESSONS MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO:
• FREE PDF: Top 3 Pentatonic Scale Patterns for more melodic soloing ➡ bit.ly/3lIQujx
• My website: www.soundguitarlessons.com/
• Full Playlist of This Series: • SERIES: Scale Types in...
• Scales Playlist: • Melodic Patterns for P...
• Modes Playlist: • Quartal Harmony - all ...
• 9, 11, 13 Chords | Guitar Extended Chords: • 9, 11, 13 Chords | Gui...
• MELODIC MINOR Scale Guitar Patterns - All Five Positions: • MELODIC MINOR Scale Gu...
• Shell Voicings video (any jazz chord with 8 shapes): • Guitar Shell Voicings ...
LESSON DESCRIPTION:
What in the world is the altered scale?
How should we go about learning the altered scale on the guitar?
And how do we apply the altered scale to real music?
Are there multiple altered scales?
That's exactly what we're going to go over in this week's lesson.
• I'll explain the music theory of the altered scale - I have a simple way to think of it.
• Then I'll show you the shapes of all five scale positions of the altered scale.
• Then we'll talk about jamming with the altered scale and how you can apply it to your own improvisations right away.
And if you just want to quickly hear what jamming with the altered scale sounds like, just check out the intro where I demonstrate soloing with it over a backing track.
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I hope you enjoyed this lesson about the altered scale and found it beneficial. Let me know what you thought in the comments. Thanks! :)
- Jared
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@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

➡ FREE PDF: Top 3 Pentatonic Scale Patterns for more melodic soloing ➡ bit.ly/3lIQujx

@12cmf 3 ай бұрын

This is the clearest explanation of altered scales I've encountered. Thanks!

@ryannintia3728 2 жыл бұрын

Matagal nakong naghahanap ng mga lesson sa jazz na maiintindihan ko nang mas madali, at sa wakas nahanap ko rin yung channel mo sir!!! Salamat nang marami at God bless sa inyo!!!

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

Glad to have you here! Thanks so much. Cheers, ~~ Jared

@ravinaidoo3354 11 ай бұрын

U are awesome. For years trying figure out those unusual phrases and u brought it out so clearly. Thank u sir.

@TheCandoheavy 2 жыл бұрын

Yes Sir!!! I do agree with using the modes from every parent scale and treating them as unique flavor, thank you for the video, great lesson.

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

Right on! :) Cheers -Jared

@takeawaybenji 3 ай бұрын

Memorizing modes is a natural outgrowth of the chord/scale improvisation technique. In jazz, you would really only need Dorian, Myxolydian, Ionian, and Altered for most tasks. Where it becomes less useful is when the chords are coming at you fast, and improvisers are already throwing away the 2 chord in a 251, or other common simplifications. Then it makes some sense to throw out the idea of modes, as well.

@StarDarkAshes Жыл бұрын

To answer your question at the end, I think it could be helpful to see it from both perspectives, but I can see how it would be less confusing to think of the scale on its own first, and then kind of understand where it comes from or understand where it comes from, but without focusing on that so that you can just focus on the route note of whatever mode you happen to be playing in

@daveydoodle1916 Жыл бұрын

You are a great teacher! Thank You.

@adventdude Жыл бұрын

This is an excellent video, Jared. To answer your specific question, I think I've (subconsciously) favored your approach to playing/hearing scales/modes in relation to their respective roots, though it was certainly handy to master the basic standard diatonic scale shapes and have those in my back pocket as well (just as more of a geometric or mechanical framework). Moving past that simple standard diatonic framework, though, I think I'd only want to invest in learning/hearing scales as they relate to their roots. That being said, it is tempting to approach the altered scale's geometry like an Ionian (major) scale with the root being a #1.

@degoldenberg 2 жыл бұрын

I love your videos. Thank you for maximizing content without clickbait!

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them! Thanks!! :)

@lovatfraser5360 2 жыл бұрын

Great Jared 👍🏼 got a gig in a few weeks and a lot of this lesson is getting lifted , thanks !

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

Great to hear that Lovat! Can't wait to hear how the gig goes :)

@stevehowland793 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks bro....informative.....just starting to learn modes last few months.

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

Right on! glad to hear it cheers, Jared

@dudedude7849 2 жыл бұрын

Very good content ,easy to understand

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear that, thanks! :)

@andrewkratz226 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome thanks for the lesson

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

@rthavi 2 жыл бұрын

I really like this approach to memorizing positions and jamming to get acquainted. I'm definitely going to incorporate this into my practice. Also, I guess I had captions enabled and your tone+playing keeps making youtube display captions like "baby" when you're playing. I guess that just speaks to that nice thick jazzy tone you're getting out of that tele!

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

HAHA I didn't know about the captions saying "baby" because of the guitar playing. That's hilarious :) Cheers, and glad you liked the video -Jared

@somethingwithcode2615 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video. I came across the altered scale before but the way you explained it made me finally understand it! Something I missed from the video however is one or two chord-diagrams to show you which altered chord you were playing. For example at 12:17 where you explain that the backing track is just an altered C7. It would be really helpfull to see the chord shape here.

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! That chord shape at 12:17 is just a shell voicing, root, 3rd, and b7 (check out this video for more on shell voicings if interested: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z6eBgdmK1K2Yj2Q.html). It's a great example of how useful shell voicings are on dominant chords becuase it doesn't include the 5 it can be treated as altered or not, or any number of dominant interpretations. Otherwise you can take any normal dominant 7th chord voicing and either sharp the 5 or flat the 5 and that works well. Or play a shell voicing, then add the #9 or b9. Check out this video for more on how to do that: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ipyfZ8qrvL2tgYU.html. I hope that helps! -Jared ~~

@LargeFont123 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Jared, yes I agree, I look at each mode as it’s own scale.

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

Right on Chris! Thanks

@tomydkc Жыл бұрын

That slide on 13:20 tho ❤

@MrPaul8870 3 ай бұрын

Mixolydian triad b7 There is a term of minus and positive The dots on guitar are positive and the spaces are negative If you do g mixolydian staying on 6 string 3rd fret All notes are on dots This is western due to spaces in-between notes The Arabic scale is a 2 3 2 With all notes joined with no spaces . If you look at mixolydian scale of 9 notes you can see 2 sets of 6 notes Use question and answer technique move between both sixes or cylinder shape which is the run scale if starting counting cylinder first note 2 Dorian is the main run as it starts and finishes on the tonic slide 2 frets do four notes slide . Don't forget slide up 1 owhen going to string two and hey presto we getting somewhere ? Pretty simple when understood. The B2 is related to phygian 3 5 is mixolydian and 7 the black hole locrian which the alternative scale should include the devil note. I've been looking at phygian and deleting the spaces by 1 to get the oriental scale this alternative scale works well when using anything related to east music The more religious the less the spaces? Weird but think about it all those great riffs with the devil note combines the old scales with the new giving an edge of virsitility. Quite often when I mention this way of thinking and playing to friends they look ate as they don't get it but when played to them in disguise example playing on phygian for 3 bars then hittimgbthe alternative scale for bar 4 workd womdets.

@briankeegan8089 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this. Nice job. I found this more accessible than the first 4 or 5 videos I watched on this subject, which soared over my head pretty quickly. As to your query, I doubt there's a right answer without context. In other words, the "right" answer for each of us depends on our imperatives/objectives. And as well , what we do and do not already know/understand. Because we'll be growing our knowledge _from_ what we already understand. So if you already have harmonic minor scales under your fingers, that's the shortest "route in." I am like you in that to "hear" the scale and its feel, I have to start by experiencing it "root to root." I can't REALLY play a scale until I can feel it like that. To me, very little sounds worse than playing the notes of a scale without a feel for it. That's like speaking out loud the words of a foreign language you do not understand. There's no inflection, and you're like a monkey on a typewriter. My preference in beginning to understand any new scale is to first see it described as the intervals from one note to the next, starting with the root . . . which for me is the most direct way to get me to plying it on one string so I try to start feeling it. And then I want to hear it in a couple of very simple contexts.

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

I agree with everything you said here. Great thoughts, thanks for sharing, Brian! :) Cheers, ~~ Jared

@danielacro641 11 ай бұрын

Hi Jared. I agree with the root of the scale approach. Rather that moving a patent scales. Because you interiorise better this way the sound and colours of the scale. That said, it is too basic to land or start from the root every time. I try to avoid that to be less predictive. Nice lesson.

@markgoodwin5306 2 жыл бұрын

I started going through the modes of a scale I’m working with. So we’re on Melodic minor, I like to start on each degree and play through the scale like it is its own. Dorian b2, Lydian Augmented, Lydian dominant, Mixo b6 and so on. I think it’s pretty cool to get that feel and sound down. Even if I never use it, it’s still cool to know. Also, when I’m going through those modes of Harmonic or Melodic, it’s so much easier for me to just carve my own paths instead of looking up their patterns and positions.

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

Right on, Mark! That's great practice!! keep it up :)

@markgoodwin5306 2 жыл бұрын

@@soundguitar Do you have a favorite mode to experiment and mess around with? I love to add a little crunch/distortion, reverb and creep around in Phrygian Dominant haha.

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

@@markgoodwin5306 I don't have a favorite per se, just depends on what I'm working on and also what mood I'm in - I love some good lydian dominant sounds when appropriate. Phrygian dominant would definitely be a great scale to creep around on with some reverb and crunch :)

@yannickstrawinski4718 Жыл бұрын

Hi Jared, I admit I'm a bit lost in choosing between playing the related jazz minor scale or the altered scale but what I like about playing the actual altered scale is that for instance when you see a Bb7 chord you don't need to think a half step above and play the jazz minor scale. It's logically quicker. You get to think less while playing. What do you guys think?

@jodyguilbeaux8225 2 жыл бұрын

i agree this is easier to understand without more music theory crammed in your head. most of the time i play an altered chord using triads and running the altered scale around the triad forms. i seems to be easier that way, if you know your triad chord inversions.

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

I dig it! Thanks for sharing.

@codica666 2 жыл бұрын

I absolutely agree with your view - seems more logical to me too. When I'm in a certain mode I focus on the mode and not it's parent scale/mode. The parent scale only comes back to my mind when I run out of ideas in the mode itself.

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you agree - I do the same thing with the parent scale, to get different ideas out. :)

@Troy1g Жыл бұрын

Jared is this the same diminished scale used in Jazz/blues sometimes used going from the I chord to the Four chord? trying to get a handle on this concept. Thanks much I like the shell approach it makes more sense to me.

@victormarkus4363 2 жыл бұрын

Great lesson! I don’t see a PDF of the altered scale positions, did you post one?

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Victor! You can find the scale diagrams on my site here: www.soundguitarlessons.com/blog/Altered-Scales-Explained+All-5-altered-dominant-scale-guitar-patterns-super-locrian

@SelfPropelledDestiny 2 жыл бұрын

So a question I've thought about with the Altered scale is, "Wouldn't it really work best on a chord that had both 5 and 9 altered?" It seems like playing a P5 on the chord (say, C7#9) and then soloing in Altered would create a more dissonant sound with the b5 (#4) and #5 (b6). Theoretically, it just seems like maybe Mixolydian #2 or even Hungarian Major (Mixolydian #2#4) might sound more consonant? You could also maybe view Phrygian Dominant (Mixolydian b2b6) as more consonant on a C7b9?

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

Good thoughts! An altered chord does have both 5 and 9 altered and that's the most appropriate or obvious place to use the altered scale. As for using it on dominant chords that aren't fully altered, it still totally works and is done quite often, and the scales you mentioned work well too - just depends on what one wants to hear while playing :)

@shitmandood 2 жыл бұрын

How Jens and the others want you to use the modes or not think of them in that way, is difficult to implement. My brain gets confused. I pretty much like the idea of thinking of them as their own thing. Might be able to get them more easily under my belt by thinking of them that way. Otherwise, I pretty much just avoid modes altogether.

@Jamsville 2 жыл бұрын

Your playing in this video is giving me Wes vibes!

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

haha Thanks Adam! :)

@aa.mirezZ 2 жыл бұрын

I have a quick question I’m hoping you can help shed some light in it for me; and let me know if I have it correct lol: To my understanding the forms of the 5 positions that make the altered scale are the exact forms that make up the melodic minor scale but the difference is the notes/root we focus on and what we are essentially improvising on chord progression wise that give it its feel and sound? (more or less in a over simplistic way of thinking)

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

Yep, that's absolutely correct! :)

@aa.mirezZ 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the quick response. Thank you. That helps break it down for me pretty well thank you lol

@cnrbsmth Жыл бұрын

How on earth are you making the top strings on that tele sound so thicccc

@pvalli1 2 жыл бұрын

How do you get that nice tone from your Tele? It has a kind of jazz sound to it.

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I play on the neck pickup, use gauge 10 string, angle my pick upward towards my left shoulder, and play mostly very lightly. I hope that helps! -Jared

@StarDarkAshes Жыл бұрын

In the video, it was stressed that when you play a scale or practice a scale, you should always focus on the root note and I couldn’t figure out what the route was of the PDFs. I downloaded the pdfs pentatonic exercises and what key are they in? Is it in A? They don’t end on the A or start on the A. Has anybody else downloaded the PDFs and knows what the route is supposed to be of the exercises? Thanks in advance.😊

@soundguitar Жыл бұрын

Good question! Those pentatonic scale patterns can be done over any chord that the scale itself works over - so the root could be any number of options depending on the chord or key one plays the melodic pattern over. If you play it over A minor then 'A' is the root, but you can play it over C major instead and then 'C' would be root. Hope that helps. Thanks for brining it up.

@StarDarkAshes Жыл бұрын

@@soundguitar Thanks. I just thought it was designed for a specific key and obviously if one thinks in terms of modes any point can be the root. (Hopefully someday the AI will understand through context that we are talking about music and the voice -to-text will spell “root’ instead of “route” 🙄)

@StarDarkAshes Жыл бұрын

So an altered cord doesn’t have to have both a five and a nine does it? If I’m understanding correctly, an altered chord is basically a dominant seven with either a sharp nine or a flat nine or a sharp five or a flat five. And can it be any permutation? It’s never going to have a #5 and a b5, right?

@mindcontrol67 2 жыл бұрын

Yes I like to think as a mode as its own island based off the root, not the parent scale.

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

Nice! So I'm not alone :)

@mindcontrol67 2 жыл бұрын

@@soundguitar If someone says otherwise then I feel its wrong,You have to think of modes as their own entity and the chord or chord progression that surrounds it .Yes they come from the parent scale but the mode is home base.

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

@@mindcontrol67 Agreed :)

@StarDarkAshes Жыл бұрын

So how are you supposed to know which notes to even play if an altered chord can have a flat nine or a sharp five or a flat, nine or a sharp nine? An altered cord doesn’t have all of them right? Like a G7 altered isn’t a dominant seven with a sharp five a flat five a sharp nine and a flat nine is it? and I’ve been looking to see if you make cords out of each position of the altered scale what chords come out of it and I think I got it right but one of them sounded weird to me and it was the minor seven. Is there a minor seven? If you make cords out of the altered scale? I’ve only been doing cord construction for a little while, as far as making a chord scale out of a certain scale. And if I’m correct, it’s just basically every other note added together to make a cord. And I was wondering if we use every note of a particular scale, or does it always just stop after three as in a triad from a major scale? You can totally extend it out all the way to the end, right? Great lesson.😊

@allenalsop6032 2 жыл бұрын

What happens if you apply "mangling" to other scale degrees?

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

Haha, great question! Never considered it, but it wouldn't work the same way and would end up bleeding into other chord types altogether. Certainly worth playing around with and experimenting with as theoretical exploration though. :) -Jared

@dudedude7849 2 жыл бұрын

What is this black thing on the guitar neck? What is it for?

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

It's a wrist band and I put it there to dampen the harmonics/overtones that ring from the strings above the nut. just makes things slightly cleaner. people use scrunchies too, or anything. -Jared

@StarDarkAshes Жыл бұрын

So say you’re looking at a song book and you see without a cord chart just a simple “Calt” how are you supposed to know whether to put a flat five or a sharp five or a flat nine or a sharp nine or a flat five and a sharp nine or a sharp nine and a flat 5 etc.? What are all the possible forms of an altered chord. That’s the one thing I’ve been trying to figure out that no one seems to say exactly. If the song book says “Calt” does that mean it’s up to you to put whatever types of fives or nines in there as long as it’s not a natural nine or a natural five? Please help!😢

@soundguitar Жыл бұрын

Yes exactly! you said it perfectly. It's totally up to you: "it’s up to you to put whatever types of fives or nines in there as long as it’s not a natural nine or a natural five"

@jonathanallen2560 2 жыл бұрын

What string Guage do you use on your Tele?

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

10s :)

@jonathanallen2560 2 жыл бұрын

@@soundguitar thanks man. And thanks for these tutorials I come back to yours more than anyone else's and I always look forward to/get excited for the new ones.

@koas5783 2 жыл бұрын

Here from MFG!

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

Yay, welcome! :)

@micahcarlsen2523 3 ай бұрын

Regarding the Q: I’m defo parental scale fella. Possibly because I’m too thick and lazy to think the other way😂 But also because I’m a visual, intuitive rather than a clever sausage!)

@relativity4 2 жыл бұрын

What do you use to make chord diagrams?

@rreyes3000 2 жыл бұрын

Check out his video series! He has a video(from last week I believe )which answers that very question. It’s super helpful. Enjoy

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

Check out this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bNiFbNWGvtTOZ4k.html - great free tool for making diagrams. I also use Chordpic.com sometimes

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

@@rreyes3000 Thanks, Ruben! :)

@poewitx 2 жыл бұрын

Apparently there 2 million 3 hundred thousand and 33 scales, I know 1 so far

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

I know the feeling

@pkbr8948 2 жыл бұрын

I know a lot of online guitar teachers want to treat each “mode” as a separate scale, presumably to acknowledge where the 7th, 5th and 3rd are within each scale. However, being really familiar with the major scale, having spent a lot of time figuring it out all over the fretboard, seems to be shameful to throw that knowledge away.

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

I personally like to treat each mode as a separate scale, but certainly a lot of people don't do it that way and they think of the parent scale for everything. There's no right or wrong way to do it, just whatever works for each person. And the major scale is still the most common and most useful scale by far, even if one thinks of all modes separately, so it's definitely not throwing it away

@chriscoghill6386 Жыл бұрын

I say forget the parent scale theory. think as a separate scale because if you don't know of a melodic minor scale and you stumble across this video it beomes too confusing and to much to think about.

@matthewbella4113 2 жыл бұрын

You're making up jazz theory. The melodic minor/super loc scale is based on the diminished scale and it's double dominant/m7b5 relationship. Basically, you're ignoring the Dominant 7th and it's diminished triads. There are 7 super Locrian and one altered scale(s) playable for the Dominant 7th chord; 4 diatonic Locrian, 8 ultra locrian, and 2 (of the three) diminished scales.

@soundguitar 2 жыл бұрын

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_scale