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Summary: Learn how to play different scales and modes in the key of Bb in this free video on jazz music theory and the altered scale.
Ryan Larson is a young jazz composer whose teaching technique focuses on the basics of music theory in all 12 keys. When applying his 12-key technique to understanding the logic behind...read more
"Now we are going to go over our altered scale which is actually the 7th mode of harmonic minor but there is an easier way to think of it. What it really boils down to is it starts off as a diminished scale and goes into a whole scale. So we are going to take a look at it on the keyboard first. So here's our F and if we started a diminished scale, we have a half step, whole step and then the rest are all whole steps and that comes out of G flat harmonic minor. So nice fun chord and that is your altered scale and it is also used as a minor 2-5. If you use a 2 diminished going into a 5 altered, it's a minor 2-5. So that is your altered scale which is a diminished scale going into a whole tone scale starting on the root of that. "