What do you use when improvising over Altered Dominants? 😎 5 Scale Exercises That Make It Easier To Learn Jazz: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kNd_fKtmy-DUias.html

Thanks so much Jens. I watch your videos like they are a Netflix mini series, gripping drama, light humor, cameos by celebrities,great "action" scenes!

That m7b5 down a whole step is for sure the easiest sub for me if I want the #5. Actually I'm trying to be more conscious of basic augmented triads and 7#5 arps on the chord's root...they're so powerful.

I had a teacher for a few months that taught me that but he never said it was the altered scale. He taught me, as you pointed out to, use a b6 melodic minor scale. One that I use also is a flat 2 7 chord arpeggio or flat 2 mixolydian scale.

Can't thank you enough for these videos Jens! Simply great!

Nice one Jens cheers greetings from Scotland

Hey Jens, greets from Miami. Thank you for that, my approach to music has been for a long time about what I hear, since I don't have any formal training. It is interesting to think of that as a proper way of learning. Thank you for your videos 🙏🔥🎸

👍Thanks for this Jens. I think it's helpful the way you lay out the material. Always appreciate these directional nudges.😉

For an altered “substitution” over D7, Cm7b5 is good - or as Barry Harris would call it, Ebm6.

Nice video Jens! In my spare time I research the historic use of the altered sound in jazz. My research so far shows that Charlie Parker didn’t really use it. There are certain instances where one could argue it could be the altered scale. Off the top of my head, i think in Cherokee, there’s a moment where it can be kind of argued that it’s altered. He’s not playing the tones in a way that a typical bebop player nowadays uses it, and he’s mainly sparsely targeting a few key chord tones that one could argue are from Altered, but I think he was just thinking about voice leading. I think the altered scale as we know it today started to become unambiguously very very prevalent by the second half of the 1950s. So something happened in that decade… Also interestingly enough, at some point in the 40s, Django also started to prominently play stuff like Abm over G7. That’s definitely the Altered concept but not used in the way a bebop player uses it. I have no proof, but I kinda think he got it from classical music…. You can hear it extensively in a recording he did in rome in the late 40s (Improvisation on Tchaikovsky’s Pathetique). On a D7 chord, he plays Ebm a number of times.

Really useful and well explained!

I couldn't make my playing sound like jazz until I started using the altered sound in my ii-V-I progressions. That alone is probably the single most important "sound" I use besides bebop stuff

awesome 👍

sorry im late to subscribe. i learned my altered licks basics when i was 17, my mentor mentioned that to make an altered lick that i should take the lick of the II chord and move it up a minor third

Great episode

Thnx Jens❤

Super vidéo, magique, comme d'habitude je n'ai rien compris mais j'ai regardé jusqu'à la fin......la deuxième fois c'est mieux

As Emily remler put it it's just the melodic minor up a half step

Thanks!

Hi Jens ,Tim from Canada Good Morning or night to you

good job Lars. even me understood it that danse scales wood!!!!

Great vid

Muy bueno video !

Is Heartaches a good track to get into jazz? I've been practicing it for awhile but it's hard because I'm going from barely able to read tabs to fingerstyle. The version I'm using was transcribed by patanobi on UG.

For simplicity sake with beginning jazz players I often teach Over G Alt Ab and Bb minor triads to get the sound without too much trouble finding fingerings.

Hey, great video thx ! Is the altered scale, the Mixolydian mode of the tritonic substitution ?

@Jens: what would you say is the criterion (or criteria) for choosing between the altered sound and the h/w diminished sound, when improvising over the dominant chord in a major ii-V-i?

By far the best altered scale explanation on the internet

play it over 8 bars ... to fast ... good job pulling em in / robben Ford really uses this well

My question in the G diminished scale G A Bflat, C Dflat Eflat Fflat Gflat, where on the guitar fret board is the Fflat? 😊

There is nothing wrong with starting with theory. The problem is the way it is taught. A good teacher will first let you listen to examples. Then draw your attention to certain spots. Then explain them. That's how I learned it. A major part of the educational process for theory is learning to recognize elements of what you hear. It's all about listening. A course that uses only pen and paper or a blackboard is a bad one. The beginning of the video reinforces the misunderstanding of what theory is

just use harmonic minor stop fing around