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- How to use tritone substitutions?
- What scale to use for tritone substitution?
- When to use tritone substitution?
- What is a tritone substitution guitar?
How to use tritone substitutions?
The tritone substitution can be performed by exchanging a dominant seventh chord for another dominant seven chord which is a tritone away from it. For example, in the key of C major one can use D♭7 instead of G7. (D♭ is a tritone away from G).
What scale to use for tritone substitution?
The scale of choice to solo over tritone substitutions is the Lydian dominant scale. The Lydian dominant scale is a mode of the melodic minor scale. The altered scale is also a mode of the melodic minor scale. These 3 scales are related and contain the same notes, but start on a different root.
When to use tritone substitution?
Using a tritone substitution introduces a unique and non-diatonic chord to the chord progression, but keeps the same tritone intact, so it still creates the same tension and pulls just as strongly to the next chord.
What is a tritone substitution guitar?
One of the most popular jazz chord substitution is the tritone substitution sometimes referred to as dominant chord substitution. It consists in replacing a dom7 chord by another dominant 7th chord whose root is a tritone away from this initial chord.
