Unlocking the Altered Scale: Tips and Tricks for OUTSIDE Sounds

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In this guitar lesson I'll be digging into the wonderful altered scale and how to use it over altered dominant 7 chords. It's not just for jazzers, and sounds really awesome over blues, rock, fusion etc., and can add some great outside colours to your improvising. A lot of folk are scared off by the potentially confusing theory that surrounds the scale however, so I'll be giving you 5 of my favourite ways of thinking about this - and (hopefully!) simplifying things along the way.
0:00 Intro
1:36 Harmony & Altered Chords
2:35 The Altered Scale
3:16 Tip 1: Up a Semitone Trick
4:26 Tip 2: Bbm over A7alt
7:21 Tip 3: Night In Tunisia/Cry Me A River Trick
9:29 Tip 4: The Minor 6 Connection
10:49 Tip 5: The Maj b6 Pentatonic
13:08 Outro
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This video is part of a set of guitar lessons designed for improving intermediate and semi-pro guitarists. On this channel there are in-depth lessons in the style of John Scofield, Scott Henderson, Robben Ford, Nile Rodgers, Pat Metheny and more, including fundamental theory concepts and various tricks to help you play and improvise better, smarter and more fluidly!

[@SEROTONINO1]

How to unlock in 13 minutes the sound you have in your head and that does not reach your fingers. Thank you very much Steve!!! Really tastefully sound 🙌🙌🙌

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That's awesome - glad the video helped! 💪🏼🎸

[@simple_abstract_music]

This is an amazing lesson! Thank you for breaking it down in a simple way!

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So much work in these 13” ! 🙏

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The absolute best tips I ve received given my guitar learning journey! Thanks a stack

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Great to hear Roy! 💪🏼

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Excellent! Loving this channel and your teaching techniques! Thanks Steve!

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Glad you're enjoying it! Cheers 🙏🏼

[@MC-1976Mei]

Great stuff! Incredible phrasing and choice of notes. 👏

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[@rickpercival3111]

Really inspiring lesson as ever Steve, thank you

[@SteveAllsworth]

You're very welcome Rick! 🙏🏼

[@kamthemankardashian]

Thanks for the tips! Amazing content bro.

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Cheers - much appreciated! 😎🎸

[@timdale4500]

Perfect, this is exactly what I’m trying to get my head around at the moment, thanks for this Steve, most appreciated

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My pleasure Ron!

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Great video!! Thanks a lot!!

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Cheers Simon - much appreciated! 🎸

[@karlsmith3281]

Finally altered my brain, at long last 👌A Night in Devon.

[@SteveAllsworth]

Yes Karl!! 💪🏼🎸 Like a Night in San Francisco? 😄

[@Web4Panama]

Fantastic. I've been working for a while to understand alt licks. This joins a few dots, cheers.

[@SteveAllsworth]

Cheers Tim! 💪🏼🎸🙏🏼

[@gumdocga]

This is an amazingly good instructional video. A lot of effort was put into it. Thank you for this.

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You're very welcome! 🙏🏼🎸

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You’re the man, Steve!

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Cheers Sam! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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Your lesson with practicle examples has really opened my ear and thinking and has finally started to make sense for me thank you much appreciated, subbed 👍

[@SteveAllsworth]

That's wonderful - glad it's helping! 🙏🏼

[@Guitars-Gear-Music]

Very nice lesson.

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Thanks! 🙏🏼

[@salvadorgarcia8661]

Magnifico, gran leccion. Esa escala suena muy moderna y profesional, me ha gustado muchisimo.

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Muchas gracias Salvador, me alegro! 🙏🏼

[@timemerson2691]

Great lesson Steve. I’m going to work on this. First thing I need is a Dumble amp and a tele to even sound that good. Oh and some talent. One thing at a time. 😊

[@SteveAllsworth]

Haha, nice one Tim - that elusive talent booster pedal will come out one day! 😂

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@@SteveAllsworth I’ll be the first in line for a talent booster pedal. Keep up the great work.

[@Mr._Bassman97]

Great video!!

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Thanks Mr Bassman!

[@bijanguitar]

Great lesson Steve, thank you! I still regularly refer to your lesson on h/w Dim. scale over altered chords 👍

[@SteveAllsworth]

That's great to hear! I'll def come back to that - there seem like infinite possibilities with that subject!

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Awesome Steve!! Hope you're doing well

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[@ey870]

Damn dude - that intro was gorgeous - thanks for the lesson

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You're very welcome - glad you liked it! 😄

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Thanks Steve!

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[@matthiasscheffler548]

Brilliant as always. Isn't simplification key to so many interesting things?

[@SteveAllsworth]

Thanks @matthiasscheffler548 - Absolutely!

[@drewpeacock4324]

Hi Steve, great lesson, thanks! Great tone too - what gear did you use?

[@SteveAllsworth]

Cheers Drew - I put the gear/tone in the description 🎸

[@108Jivatma]

Awesome lesson. I can hear Steely Dan in there, too.

[@SteveAllsworth]

Thank you! It's probably in there somewhere yes! 🎸

[@GuitarTeleMan]

Great playing and sound. Can you please share what amp, pedals or plugin you are using for that great tone. Also is that the bridge pickup. Thanks

[@SteveAllsworth]

Thanks @GuitarTeleMan - I put some details in the description, but basically AT+ pedal and bridge p/u for the opening solo

[@GuitarTeleMan]

Thanks, I should have scrolled down further. Thanks for letting us know you used the Oxbox... seems to be very popular for KZbinrs.

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[@ejderazizpeker8308]

Amazing video thanks a lot. All your videos are great.🎉 But i did not understand how you decide fmajb6 petatonic over A7alt. What is the logic behind it? Could you pls explain how you decide that? I appreciate in advance.❤

[@SteveAllsworth]

@ejderazizpeker8308 thank you! A couple of interesting things about FMb6 Pent - one is that it's basically an abbreviated form of the A Altered Scale. The other is that if you scrunch all the notes from an A7#5#9 chord down into a scale, you actually end up with the FMb6 Pentatonic - cool huh? 💪🏼

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@@SteveAllsworth thanks a lot.👍🍺

[@rootblack8745]

Chord worksheet not available.... Great lesson! thx.

[@SteveAllsworth]

Whoops, put up the wrong link - should be fixed now! Thanks for watching 🙏🏼

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[@GuitarTeleMan]

Hi Steve, I'm a big fan of your playing. I sent you a message via your website regarding private lessons. I thought I would post this here in the case that you don't check that email often. Frank Adamo, Thanks

[@SteveAllsworth]

Cheers Frank - email sent! 🙌🏼

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I've bought you some coffees in the past. Tried tonight and the site keeps telling me the payment is complete and then tells me my payment is not working. Great lesson though

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Hey @michaelcripe5080 - thanks for the message - I've sent you an email - can't have anything messing with my coffee fix! 🙏🏼

[@larsfocken3456]

Thank you for this great video. Cry me a River and Careless Whisper are great examples that I can use at once. Now check this out: Over Em7 play Gm7 Arp (gives you a minor 9 sound) Over A7alt play Gm7/b5 Arp And then resolve to D major You will find chromatically descending major thirds in the II and Valt Arps. I use that in Girl from Ipanema all the time, because there you have II V twice in a row at the end of the B section.

[@SteveAllsworth]

Wonderful - thanks for that Lars - love that tune! 🎸

[@larsfocken3456]

I actually made a mistake there: over Em7 you play the Gmaj7 Arp. I’m sorry.