Altered scale piano

1. What is an altered scale piano?
2. How do you calculate altered scale?
3. What are the notes in an altered scale?
4. What is ad altered scale?

What is an altered scale piano?

Altered scales include one or more notes that is lowered or raised compared to its main variation. For example, Altered Locrian b4 that is identical to the Locrian Scale except for the flatted fourth. Altered scales are based on the same principles as altered chords.

How do you calculate altered scale?

To find the appropriate notes for an altered scale, simply go up a half step from the root of the chord and play the ascending form of the melodic minor scale (a major scale with a flatted third). So, on G7, you would play Ab melodic minor starting on G, and voila, you're playing G altered.

What are the notes in an altered scale?

The altered scale is a dominant scale where all the non-defining chord tones are altered. The three essential notes that define any chord are the root, the third, and the seventh (dominant chord = root, major third, flat seventh). Any note that isn't the root, the third, or the seventh can be altered.

What is ad altered scale?

The altered scale is a musical scale based loosely on a major scale but with multiple alterations (hence its name). It fits naturally over a dominant chord (V7 chord) that resolves to the tonic (I chord).