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    The document provides a table of scales, arpeggios, and triads to use over different chords in jazz and fusion music.

    The document is intended to share information about scales and chord tones to use when improvising over different chords.

    't.' stands for 'tonality' and is used to describe variations on well-known scales.

    MA7 m7 m7(♭5) Dom7

    Scales Tonality Start at


    Major
    Ionian 1 Aeolian ♭3 Locrian ♭2 Mixolydian 4
    Lydian 5 Phrygian ♭6
    Lydian ♭2 t. 2 Dorian ♭7

    Minor
    Pentatonic Major 2, 3, 6 Dorian 1, 2, 5 Locrian ♭3, 4, ♭7 Mixolydian 1, 2, 5, 6
    Lydian 7 2, 5: “avoid” note 4th
    Lydian ♭2 t. ♯4

    Melodic
    Minor Lydian Aug. 6 Melodic Minor 1 Locrian ♮2 ♭3 Lydian Aug. 4
    Locrian ♮2 ♭3 Lydian Dom. 5
    Mixed up t. ♭5

    Harmonic
    Minor Harmonic Minor 1

    W/H
    Diminished ♭5, ♭6, ♮7 t. 2 Diminished 1

    H/W
    Diminished Diminished 1

    Whole Tone
    ♭2, ♮7 t. 7 Lydian Dom. ♯5 t. 1

    Arpeggios
    maj7
    Major 1 Aeolian ♭3
    Lydian 5

    m7
    Aeolian 1

    m7♭5
    Lydian ♯4 Dorian 6 Locrian 1 Mixolydian 3
    Locrian ♮2 1 Lydian Dom. ♯4

    m(maj9)
    Lydian Aug. 6 Melodic Minor 1 1 Lydian Aug. 4
    Locrian ♮2 ♭3 Lydian Dom. 5

    º7
    Locrian ♮2 1

    Triads
    maj
    Major 1, 4, 5 Dorian ♭3, 4, ♭7 Locrian ♭5, ♯5 Lydian Dom. 2
    Lydian 2 Melodic Minor 5 Locrian ♮2 ♭7
    Lydian Aug. 3 7, ♭5 t. 2, 7

    +
    Lydian Aug. 1, 3, ♯5 Melodic Minor ♭3, 5, 7 Locrian ♮2 2, ♭5, ♭7 Lydian Dom. 2, ♭5, ♭7

    º
    Locrian ♮2 1

    © 2005 Alexander Teinum <[email protected]> Last updated: 05.06.2005 (mm.dd.yyyy)


    7(♯5) 13alt. Dom7(sus) sus(♭9)
    Scales Tonality Start at
    Major
    Mixolydian 4 Phrygian ♭6

    Minor
    Pentatonic 1, 4, ♭7 Mixolydian 2, 5
    Altered ♭3

    Melodic
    Minor Altered ♭2 Dorian ♭2 ♭7 Phrygian ♮6 ♭7

    Harmonic
    Minor 4

    W/H
    Diminished

    H/W
    Diminished Diminished ♭2

    Whole Tone
    9♯5 1
    Avoid chords with ♭9 or ♯9

    Arpeggios
    maj7
    Mixolydian ♭7

    m7

    m7♭5
    Altered ♭7 Phrygian 5

    m(maj9)
    Altered ♭2 Dorian ♭2 ♭7 Phrygian ♮6 ♭7

    º7
    Diminished ♭2, 3, 5, ♭7

    Triads
    maj
    Altered ♭6 Diminished 1, ♭3, ♭5, 6 Mixolydian 4, ♭7

    +
    Augmented 1, 3, ♯5

    º
    Diminished 2, 3, 5, ♭7

    © 2005 Alexander Teinum <[email protected]> Last updated: 05.06.2005 (mm.dd.yyyy)


    What did I just see?

    It's a table of scales, arpeggios and triads to play over different chords commonly found in jazz and fusion.

    The information is gathered from various sources: Scott Henderson's video Jazz Fusion , the book Guitar Lessons With
    The Greats , John Scofield's video On Improvisation , the tables from Scott Lerner's website, various other websites and
    a little research on my own. and I thought I'd like to share it with other guitarists out there.

    Playing in lydian

    Let's try it out by playing a C lydian scale over a C major chord. This table utilizes parallel thinking, so you simply play a
    major scale starting at the fifth of the chord's root note.

    A fifth away from C is C D E F …yup… G. This means that you should play G major over the C major chord. Don't get
    confused by paralell thinking and deriving from a major scale. You're moving the major scale itself around, not deriving
    from a major scale.

    Some useful tips

    - You'll get far if you occationally find new ideas to work on in the table, and use a week or so to digest it. You don't
    need to learn everything in one day.

    - Know where the root is in the major scale patterns. Start with the one you know best. For me, it's the major pattern
    starting on the low E string on the second finger. The second octave starts from the fourth finger on the fourth string.

    - When you see ♭7 in the table, you could play the major scale up a flat seventh, but it's probably easier to move down
    a whole step.

    - Get my two other tables too: the circle (or shall we say table?) of fifths and the table of the melodic minor harmony.

    - The table looks yummy printed with a 1200 dpi laser printer. Crisp'N'Clear. Try that!

    “t.”

    There's an abbreviation that you should be aware of, and that's “t.” for tonality. I've used it to describe sounds that are
    variations on well known scales and such.

    Suggestions/feedback

    Please drop me an e-mail if there's anything that could be improved.

    © 2005 Alexander Teinum <[email protected]> Last updated: 05.06.2005 (mm.dd.yyyy)

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