Learn to play jazz guitar Melodic Minor Lesson Part 3

I'm no jazz master, but this seems to be the most jazziest function of the scale. this is the Altered scale, or the Melodic Minor Scale a half step up. so in a jazzy ii V I Dmin7 G7 Cmaj7 you play the G# Melodic minor over the G7 and you get a real jizzazzy sound.
try it out, and thanks a lot!!!

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[cm0220ster]

Your way too generous man, thanks for posting.

[mikmikman]

hey bro, i like you :)) Thank you so much!! i am learning more about jazz with you!!

thanks from turkey... ;))

[jbdubify]

Are you sure you aren't just showing off. NICE  Jb

[1Caleb83]

that's nice!

[chicks161]

cool vid marty i really like your lessons , i am just venturing into jazz and find it bloody confusing , so basically when you are soloing say in cmajor you would play a c# altered (melodic minor) and is that the basic rule for this scale , cheers

[MusicianofStark]

We need more lessons like this. Explained so well.

[zebopper]

Thanks Bro, you're on it, sounds cool...for anyone interested in further explanation how to use jazz minor (or altered) scales over dominant resolving and non-resolving fifth chords check out Emily Remler's vids here on utube. Great stuff - cheers!

[renixe]

@renixe

you may think what's the difference between a7 altered and Bb melodic minor? they're the same notes! well yes, it is, but if you've ever studied musicianship you know you want to think in terms of the degrees of the actual chord - which is hard when you know the altered scale as the mel minor scale a half step up. you want to think of A as the root, A# as the b2, C as the #9, and so on so you can relate these sounds to chord degrees to easier audiate them in your mind.

[renixe]

@mifski

yes. you play the melodic minor scale a half step up from the altered dominant chord.

so if you say a7#9 resolving to d major you can would play Bb melodic minor over the a7 chord.

so you can think of it as Bb melodic minor scale, or a much better way is to just learn the altered scale starting from the actual root of the chord, in this instance A altered scale (which is really just Bb melodic minor starting on A).

[Sunderlanding]

I allways found this way of explaining the altered dominant scale to be confusing. An easier way to remember it is Locrian (b4).

[mifski]

so just to clarify.. the altered scale is built just by moving the WHOLE (not just the seventh note) scale up a fret????? please.

[chasebjazzguitar]

thanks for posting bro!