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Position 6 (3 notes per string)Right hand

Ab Altered Scale notes: Ab Bbb Cb Dbb Ebb Fb Gb (R b2 b3 b4 b5 b6 b7). See all 10 positions on an interactive guitar fretboard and hear each one played. Free, with 20,000+ shapes.

Ab Altered
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Tunings

Current tuning: Standard

Note: Scale, chord and arpeggio positions are worked out for every tuning, so some may stretch wider or be fewer than in Standard. Learning and Song shapes are written for Standard, so those pages always show Standard tuning.

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AbAltered Scale
Notes

Ab, Bbb, Cb, Dbb, Ebb, Fb, Gb

Degrees

R, b2, b3, b4, b5, b6, b7

Intervals

R, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2

Playback settings

90 BPM

Ab Altered Scale

The Altered Scale, or Super Locrian, is the seventh mode of the Jazz Minor Scale. Heard over a dominant 7th chord, it holds the chord's Root, 3rd (written here as a b4) and flat 7th, plus every altered tension: b9, #9, b5 and #5. Jazz players use it over a 7alt chord just before it resolves to the I chord, for the most tension before the release.

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