Guitar Lesson: Alex Skolnick - Dominant 7th and altered licks (TG253)

Testament's Alex Skolnick leads the way from rock to jazz in TG's three-part lesson
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[@daveeldredgeband]

Sweet Godin... My future guitar!

[@darkspectre653]

Love the sense of angular movement. :)

[@theempyrean1227]

Wow! That was far out man! really groovy! Thanks, I'll have to try doing that a few timed.

[@burakyy4907]

Thanks very much master! This lick makes the scale easier to visualize..

[@jasonfree7714]

Really nice explanation, great sound

[@crapadopalese]

0:57 that's a very dominant chord right there

[@jasonkeith9317]

At about halfway through the video u can hear his Uber coming!

[@steve1982n]

Excellent thank you master

[@jkljackal]

I'm lost but that was great!

[@stratcat7162]

Just take it slow

[@wayofwaves]

Nice! very easy and fun :) Ty!

[@patrickmccarthy7124]

So dope! Thank you!

[@Bricklinsv1970]

He plays so fing clean! If you gave this a thumbs down you suck!

[@lenilopez7880]

Thank you !

[@travisschecter2022]

total genius

[@freddycharles]

Nice stuff.

[@cbut2262]

god damn it that is one tasty lick

[@chrisburton7827]

It's A Tripp How That Chord Starts Out Feeling Like Jazz To Me.. But It Turns Slightly Dark. A Transitional Chord I Guess..

[@isaiahmarquez9717]

It’s all jazz. Altered dominant chords, chromatics, and melodic minor scale is what gives jazz that jazz sound.

[@jeffmoppi]

beautiful!

[@SavageGrace89]

nice

[@jazzerson7087]

It's a great lick, particularly descending as it gave me an idea of how to make the D 7 + 9 chord connect to G minor 7 in the minor 2-5-1. A lick like this:
------------------------------------------------5-4-3--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-3-4-3-----------------------------------3-6----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------5-3---------------------2-5-2-3--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------4-3------------3-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------6-3-4-5-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Also sounds good if you start the E flat melodic minor scale from the G flat or F#, play F# lydian augmented scale from the major third up to the sharp ninth sounds good.

[@ghiribizzi]

I just know the G circle

[@sweetgyy]

guitar master

[@ShadovvV]

Brilliant.. but extremely complex.

[@binface9]

Not complex, just poorly explained. Plenty of other tutorials on the altered scale which are easier to follow.

[@stratcat7162]

@@binface9 he basically laid down a map. Used a raised 9 to demonstrate the scale. The point is trying to play the scale and get comfortable with it. Everyone knows you can get more theory information. That's not the motive for the video.

[@rishardlampese8947]

Nice lick. Thanks. But "melodic minor"? I guess you mean from the 3rd of the chord since there is no D melodic minor in there. More useful to mention the D double diminished (half step-whole step from the D). Finally if you're going to mention melodic minor in any reference to the #9 chord, better to call it a "jazz minor" since the melodic will change on the way down while the jazz stays intact. The jazz minor from the b2 works here. Just my 2¢. Thanks again.

[@Leehawkeyboy]

The altered scale is the 7th mode of the melodic minor, and the melodic minor only descends differently in classical music. It is the same up and down in jazz.

[@Waxyerify]

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[@claudedietrich8654]

so funny to watch this rocker "explaining" dominant alt chords (those arising from the altered scale i.e.7th mode of the melodic minor scale). Shows so well the huge gap most often found between jazz and rock musicians

[@kimber_eastvan]

Do your homework before posting negative comments. Alex has a university degree in jazz performance.

[@manny75586]

Yeah he has a degree in Jazz performance from The New School in New York City. He has also released several jazz albums. He has also performed at basically every major jazz festival.
Total Guitar is aimed more at "rock" players. Don't take his explaining it to a rock crowd as evidence that he doesn't know what he's talking about.