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Guest · Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 5:51 am Post subject: Altered Scales

Hey, I've just been starting to get into altered scales (mixob9b13, half whole diminished and a few others.

I was wondering if anyone knew some other good altered scales to learn. I'm really looking for a few good scales to use over dominant chords to create alot of tension.

Thanks alot,

furious_b

Christian · Guest

The chromatic scale. Good start.

Take what ever you are playing and transpose by a number of frets. One fret up works great guns. Also minor thirds (stpes of three frets) sound well good.

bluerag · Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 10

http://www.lucaspickford.com/articles.htm

Here you have a brief discussion of the diminished, augmented and altered dominant scales.

Good thing to use over altered 5th dominant chords.