How to Practice the ALTERED SCALE

For my Presets visit: johnnathancord... If you're not totally clued up on the Altered Scale/Melodic Minor scale, it's not something I explain in this video, so probably for an introduction you might want to look elsewhere? However, if you're wondering about how to practice this scale - here's what I'm doing at the moment - concerns tension and release and how to resolve from the melodic minor/altered scale into the parent major scale.
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[@AlexVonCrank]

I’m not gonna lie. I hit like before the theme music is over. That’s how much trust I have in this guy.

[@samseguin3690]

Same!!!

[@svarthelikoptern]

Wow. Seems like yesterday when I commented on your video on practicing the major scale and I literally can't believe my eyes....a video on the altered scale! This is what makes being a patron so worthwhile.

[@SubKrypt]

Thanks for the video Jonathan. After spending some time exploring approaches to altered scale use I have found it's better to visualise the scale from the root of the altered chord you're playing it over eg. Visualising G Altered scale over G Alt chord rather than Ab melodic minor. I find having to transpose and superimpose another melodic minor scale over the altered dominant chord more complicated and importantly much harder to see the chord tones of the altered chord your playing over. Once I started visualising the altered scale ok from its root I then added the melodic minor visual patterns into my fretboard knowledge, so I can now see those patterns but from an altered scale point of view, rather than a transposed melodic minor point of view

[@bjorn_bennett]

I’m the same way. I tried viewing it from Ab from was worse haha so ended up visualizing from root instead

[@sTVG2]

inspiring! great ideas

[@henryfaulkner6051]

Great video..!

[@laicank]

thanks for this awesome lesson!

[@nadasonic6]

why are you associating III7alt scale with the I key? are you using it over V7alt chords in a chart? (or over tonic chords? or over III7alt chords [which appear infrequently in charts]?). you don't explain how you're employing it harmonically..
(are you thinking of it as V7alt of vi?)

[@Many141]

Thats my question too. But it works as a extention. Like john stowell’s concept

[@kevinmoore8896]

Hi, are you using a helix or hx stomp patch for this? If so, which one? Thanks.

[@chrisinglik4115]

How to practice the altered scale? Practice Mixolydian b6 but think of it as a Melodic Minor up a 4th and pretend you play the Altered scale up a 3rd. Easy :))) Awesome playing anyway!

[@chrisinglik4115]

...by the way that Mixolydian b6 is one of my favourite sounds in music. It's like two opposites in one scale - first half of it is happy and then the second one is sad. I love it.

[@alej3795]

All you have to do is to change the root of major scale - a half step up

[@Esbenmad]

Will you expand on that idea?

[@alej3795]

@@Esbenmad The best and really logical way to understand Melodic minor scale is to match it with Dorian - it is Dorian with Major 7 , instead of min 7 - many players play both - Dorian and M.m. on minor chord ... So , if you compare those two scales - D Dorian contains C (b7) and D Melodic m. has C# instead ( all other notes are identical) ; C# in Melodic minor is the root of the Altered scale , so you only have to change C (root of the C Major= D Dorian) to C# ( root of C# Alt = D Melodic minor)

[@dvcerdeira1]

@@alej3795 I agree its the less confusing aproach. The same with Aeolian and Harmonic minor (#7)