Altered scale
Altered is the seventh mode of melodic minor, though this catalog spells it from the chord's point of view rather than the mode's, keeping a major third and naming the rest as tensions.
- Used for
- Jazz solos over altered dominant chords.
- Formula
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Steps H W H W W W W Semitones 1-2-1-2-2-2-2 Degrees 1 ♭2 ♭3 ♭4 ♭5 ♭6 ♭7 - Relationships
- It is the seventh mode of the Melodic Minor Ascending scale.
- Also called
- Super Locrian, Altered Dominant, Diminished Whole-Tone, and Locrian ♭4.
Altered in all 12 keys
Pick a key to see it on the piano, or jump straight to the guitar view.
- C C Altered scale piano guitar
- D flat Db Altered scale piano guitar
- D D Altered scale piano guitar
- E flat Eb Altered scale piano guitar
- E E Altered scale piano guitar
- F F Altered scale piano guitar
- G flat Gb Altered scale piano guitar
- G G Altered scale piano guitar
- A flat Ab Altered scale piano guitar
- A A Altered scale piano guitar
- B flat Bb Altered scale piano guitar
- B B Altered scale piano guitar
