Altered Scale | Essential Exercises | Jack Gardiner

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Melodic Minor Scale Lesson:
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[@TylerSmithMusic1]

you're incredible Jack. people don't understand the hustle it takes to make it in music. you're not only a killer player, but a content creator, recording, mixing and mastering, creating educational content, and upkeeping a social presence

[@danielmcnulty8736]

Me: I have work to do. YT: You need to hear this thing about altered scales, tho! Me: Excellent point.

[@allenboland2481]

Thanks Jack!

[@andresfures]

Thanks Jack!!!

[@PascalChampagne]

Awesome ... helps me a lot ! Thanks !

[@carlosduran5640]

Hello. Mrs. Lo. Felicit. Muy. Buen. Video. Gracias carlos

[@BasedRaven96]

You're such a good player! Really tasty licks!

[@bradleybeebee]

You are such an outstanding improviser. Your phrasing is very reminiscent of Guthrie Govan, but it is completely original and unique. Love it brother don’t ever stop doing what you’re doing.

[@sandortoth8708]

Szuper kedvencem

[@winstonsmith8240]

Great stuff. Fabulous playing ( for a scouser)🙂 Thanks. Love the vamp. Magic mate.

[@solothesolos]

Right hand exercises for next week! Alt picking or hybrid picking or economy picking. That's my suggestion! Thanks for your amazing lessons!!!!!!!

[@Peter-sk5vg]

Lovely groove

[@naxguitar74]

Great lesson!!!! Thanks

[@emil5426]

Man the intro gets me! Soo groovy

[@CMM5300]

Exactly the things I've been working on. Altered, diminished scale and whole tone. That's great!

[@CMM5300]

It's good to explain that the altered scale is a major scale one half step down with a sharp root. So it tries to "pull" back down , outside. That's why it gets the altered name.

[@abfranklin8492]

Great lesson. Simplest explanation of what it is and how to use it I’ve found on KZbin so far.

[@joejo7099]

merci pour cette explication limpide 😃😃👍👍

[@jamesrobinson529]

I can never get enough excellent advice on the Altered Scale! This lesson is so inspiring and I feel like I've learned a lot from it without being overwhelmed.

[@imzatman]

Hi Jack, how I can thank you for your great content. Every time your drop a lesson is like you answer one of the questions I have this actual period! Thank you a lot brother! Fan from Morocco

[@JackGardiner]

Thanks so much brother! Glad they are helping out! 🙏

[@chriszoupa7898]

You rock dude!

[@benbullettmortlock]

Honestly, I was SO pleased to see you'd released this. Thank you VERY much Jack!

[@tperry5839]

That rhythm guitar in the back is stank wooooo awesome 😎

[@waltertiana4741]

Great lesson, 🍺cheers mate,

[@bestboy897]

fucking sick playing love the odd notes thrown in between very fusiony

[@viniglerianoviolino]

Thank you so much! I'm a violinist looking for some information about altered scales and i found this video really useful! 1 build diminished arpeggios beggining from b9 or b2. 2 use sequences of arpeggios accordingly to the harmony. 3 use small fragments of fhe scale thinking about resolution of tensions.

[@MoonWalkerTexsRanger]

That intro is incredible

[@CallMetheMusicMan]

The reflection in his neck pickup made me think he had a crazy long thumb nail.

[@horriblecovers4748]

great player. I love this style of music

[@mglickman13]

Hi Jack! 👍

[@bluenose1875]

Love this stuff, American cop tv music . Funky shit

[@gordoncrmn]

How can I comment when my jaw is on the floor after tasty playing like that !!!

[@davidkultura5443]

Thank you so much sir jack!! More power. A student from PH! 🙇‍♂️

[@mikedebruyn5538]

By far your personal best! Wow you have inspired me (61) in a huge way. Most useful lesson. You honestly deserve 1Million views of this video.

[@CharlieRobbins]

Always amazing!

[@ScorpWriter]

Very good tasteful playing. I music, as in many other topics, there's the why, how, what, when. Concepts such as this one of the altered scale to introduce tension and resolution revolve not so much about the what, or how... It's a matter of timing, or just knowing WHEN to use the concept. Because this, with other scales that have similar harmonic structures, sound fantastic when applied at the right rhythmic moment within the bar or group of bars. Just wanted to share that... Again, great playing, and thank you for your contribution.

[@ashishvivian2224]

Madness!! Brilliant!!!!!

[@manimusicka2]

Such an awesome lesson! Thank you so much Jack.

[@ten5ionator]

This is exactly what I want to be able to play... !! Tasty playing and great videos!

[@alanbalkany1438]

Wow! I'm blown away by your solo at the beginning!! I'm a rock lead guitarist, and I'm mystified by jazz. I could listen to your playing for hours! I don't understand it, but it's awesome and gives me motivation to tackle the altered scale. (Can you give a link to more of your lead playing? I'd LOVE to listen to it! Please?)

[@M_bags6463]

He has albums on spotify. Look up Jack and Owen

[@alanbalkany1438]

@@M_bags6463 Thanks! I'll check it out.

[@DevanBishop]

Popped up in my suggested and I said ‘yes please.’

[@Moe-Ama]

I'm so happy to see you very active on youtube now :D

[@7thString84]

As always great lesson, man! I had jazz lessons for a year and was always confronted with this scale. But I never really used it because I just don't play pure Jazz normally. ;) But approaches like these are really worth to dive into it a little deeper. Sounds great! :)

[@hsuuyema6932]

Amazing lesson ! Hugs from Brazil 🤘🏼

[@emilianocastagna2166]

Good video!

[@blazzerlazzer]

I watch these videos at work so when I go home I can make my guitar go bunm bwom de do de do bwoooo like Jack Gardiner

[@fernandocastro8100]

Wonderfull

[@ElyJaffeMusic]

that opening jam made my day :)

[@nuke97]

Excellent analysis and demonstration.

[@santiagolouvet2027]

cool!

[@VipulChagotra]

thanku for these awesome lessons Jack🙏🙏.Best wishes for ur upcoming music.

[@neildenman1776]

Great video and killer playing

[@TadmlkTavsiyeler]

u play awesome, thank you for the great lesson :)!!!

[@bossmarky8957]

Thanks for free lessons.

[@wolfgangcordsen3430]

TOP LESSON AS USUAL MATE!!

[@JorgeStratoBlackmor1]

Hey Jack, could you make a video about how to use 7º arpegios and how to mix them with scales? THANKS!!

[@henrik2628]

Great video, you are a great teacher and player 👌👌 really tasty licks

[@andrewthaww3533]

Hi Jack I want to know how to use Phrygian scale in jazz harmony including avoid note and how to jam over it.Thank a lot for free lessons please answer something about my question 🙏

[@rofertpomendia1388]

great!!! lesson!!! more videos like this🔥🔥🔥💜🤘

[@tytrdev]

Your videos are pure fuego

[@LeonTodd]

Jack is like the lovechild of Sco and Holdsworth - Scoldsworth?!

[@extrememind100]

I hear Abit of Guthrie there too

[@metalheadblues]

@@extrememind100 all the europeans have a lil Guthrie in them

[@scottlowe2902]

Excellent lesson!

[@Brixiomendoza]

thaks for show us this!! jack :D

[@bestboy897]

these exercises are amazing

[@ToshikiShibata]

Nice lesson as usual! Recently saw the video of musicism Neo Soul course and definitely going to purchase that soon!

[@JackGardiner]

Thanks Toshiki! 🙏 Ahh yes - that just dropped today! Hope you are doing well brother?

[@ToshikiShibata]

Jack Gardiner I’m doing extreeeeeemly well!! hope you are well too!

[@xlfc]

What the hell??!! What did I just found?! Amazing intro. Wanna sheets for every instrument there. Tasty as hell! :-)

[@jameserenberger3425]

Thanks for the lessons! I understand why you used the Diminished 7 arpeggios over the dominant chords, but there is no Diminished 7th chord within the altered scale, or any melodic minor modes. There are two min7b5's though.

[@markgoodwin5306]

If you take the minor7b5 arpeggio on the 7th degree, fill in the missing notes and you have the altered scale. So if you have G#BDF#, throw in A, C, and E and you have it. Or just start the scale from that degree, that note.

[@paulgilbertisgod]

There’s no D note in G Altered so where does the diminished chord built on the flat 9 come in?

[@TobyDN1982]

I always found it difficult to get back to other scales when playing the altered scale over functional dominant chords. It can really screw up your melodies when you don't switch back in time :-D

[@abdelrahmankhaled8239]

same

[@lavbas2107]

I'm taking private lessons in jazz, and every week I check youtube Sir Gardiner uploads a video of the exact topic I go through that week with my teacher, it's so funny and weird shit's fire tho

[@MaxGuit14]

Fantástico!! que feeling!! y un Exquisito Backing Track 😎

[@fakestreamedia5309]

Great lesson thank you. I’ve always wondered which altered scale do you play over a repeating ii V progression (never resolving to a 1 chord) ? Thx again

[@nehemiasperez1789]

very nice bless you

[@comboart4610]

Like it

[@sabbirhasan6934]

Hi Jack, your playing is mesmerizing and very melodious, i always wish you best.

[@Kasper911band]

Love it! Thx! Give us that backing track! 👍🏽

[@MrSatch12]

Alright! Another great lesson. 🔥

[@ployzyTK]

Thank

[@andrewjohnson3098]

thank you master... btw your toe is legendary

[@swayamtailor]

dude loving these lessons! i even got my friends to sub. It'd be really cool if you did something on ALTERNATE PICKING VS. ECONOMY PICKING and under which conditions should you prefer one over the other, plus benefits/disadvantages?

[@robertokochert5098]

Hey Jack! Great video as always. I had one question though. If we look at the G altered scale (G-Ab-A#-B-C#-D#-F-G) and an Ab Diminished (Ab-B-D-F) three out of these notes are in there. We do not hit the #5 (D#) but rather the natural 5 in G7. Why would this work again in an altered sense? It sounds awesome but I was just curious. Thanks for the content every Friday, you are killing it!

[@JackGardiner]

Great question man! It’s basically because the natural 5 is in a Dominant7 arpeggio (1, 3, 5, b7) and an Altered Chord is essentially a Dom7 chord with any of the following: b9, #9, (#11 for tritone stuff) and #5. Hope that makes sense man? Thanks again dude!

[@HeadbangoO]

@@JackGardiner I think that's not what he meant. You said to play a G#dim arpeggio (which has a D) over a Galt chord (which has a D#), hence the confusion. It sure sounds great, but I'm lost too 😂

[@steevkelly]

yep, i'm having trouble connecting the two. the whole section on practicing the altered scale is essentially practicing the G#diminished arpeggio and adding the natural G rather than working with the actual G Altered. great lesson overall - really opened my ears to the sound, but the dim arpeggio part just confused me.

[@ryanlayton3868]

@@steevkelly Ab dim7 has Ab, Cb (same as B), E double flat (same as D) and G double flat (same as F). These notes are the b9, 3, 5, and b7 in G. It’s not the same as the altered scale, but I guess it’s a good intro into the altered scale flavor because of the b7 and b9. You’re right, though, that a natural 5 takes it out of altered scale territory.

[@americoperez810]

@@HeadbangoO he never explicitly said to play it over a Galt chord, just to play it in context of a G (which in this case I think refers to just a plain G7). See my comment for further explanation on what I think is going on.

[@Marunius]

I don't understand, for the A flat diminished you're using the note D instead of Db/C#...

[@yockinnottou]

5:57 when the video starts

[@enoughnonsenseplease3780]

I just know Guthrie loves you.

[@enricochet1]

Clarify that the notes of the Diminished-7th chord built in the Flat-9th scale degree does not use the notes of the Altered Scale. Ab-B-D-F contains the Perfect-5th of G7 chord, actually pulling the ear away from the “altered” sound. Ab-B-Eb-F (Ab6) or Ab-B-Db-F (Db7) is correct. Cheers!

[@stevieboi61]

👌

[@armax00]

I have a question for you: how are your course organised? And what are the expected knowledge to use them? I was thinking I might want to support you that way but I have a very fragmented knowledge and I do not know where to start or what would help me the most :)

[@TheOriginalCoda]

I think a lot of us are in the same boat. Gotta find a way to embrace it though, it what makes each one of us unique...

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[@Iwan1995_]

YOO MY IDOL

[@horstlippitsch]

Awesome master! Which kind of pick do you use? Dunlop Jazz 3?

[@xianguitar6420]

its really close to Cm harmonic minor? thanks for the lesson, my new imfluence..

[@lwwells]

Who downvotes stuff like this?

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[@deddyoktafiansyahrante3542]

such a beautiful songg🤩🤩🤩how can i get the backing track ???

[@HarlanHarvey76]

Are you using the HR Looperboard for your backing track??

[@willgoodfellow3144]

Jack- do you ever think about it as melodic minor up a half step as a shortcut or are you always thinking about it in terms of intervals? Thanks.

[@JackGardiner]

Ahh I should’ve stressed this in the video actually, but no - I try not to think of it as melodic minor a half-step up! Mainly as intervals from the root. It messes with my visualisation if I start thinking of the Melodic Minor scale a half step up.

[@judeleeper3190]

but the backing track didn't run out on accident.

[@emanuelpocaterra693]

I really love your taste. Would kill to have you as my teacher but... F me, we're too far. Greetings from Italy

[@americoperez810]

Hey Jack, is there a way that we could get the backing tracks for these free lessons? I tried to search on your website to see if I could purchase it but no luck

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Sticking with Cali lately brother ♥️♥️ lovely phrases .... Check out mikko cab Sim plug-in it's really a big deal

[@xlfc]

Can someone tell me the name of the backing track in the intro?