Unlocking the Altered Scale: Tips and Tricks for OUTSIDE Sounds

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In this guitar lesson I'll be digging into the wonderful altered scale and how to use it over altered dominant 7 chords. It's not just for jazzers, and sounds really awesome over blues, rock, fusion etc., and can add some great outside colours to your improvising. A lot of folk are scared off by the potentially confusing theory that surrounds the scale however, so I'll be giving you 5 of my favourite ways of thinking about this - and (hopefully!) simplifying things along the way.

0:00 Intro
1:36 Harmony & Altered Chords
2:35 The Altered Scale
3:16 Tip 1: Up a Semitone Trick
4:26 Tip 2: Bbm over A7alt
7:21 Tip 3: Night In Tunisia/Cry Me A River Trick
9:29 Tip 4: The Minor 6 Connection
10:49 Tip 5: The Maj b6 Pentatonic
13:08 Outro

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This video is part of a set of guitar lessons designed for improving intermediate and semi-pro guitarists. On this channel there are in-depth lessons in the style of John Scofield, Scott Henderson, Robben Ford, Nile Rodgers, Pat Metheny and more, including fundamental theory concepts and various tricks to help you play and improvise better, smarter and more fluidly!