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: SCALE SYLLABUS wh © -EEGEND: H = Halt Step, = Wnele Step. = Major 7B + of €= raise H; bar = lower * CHOBDISCALESYMEOL SCALENAME ¢ Mejor Dominant 7h Mincr(Dorian) Half Diqunished(Locrian} Diminished($ wone scale) SCALENAME ‘Major(don't comphasize the 41h) coprcanc Seeegee Cant ina stale wih +4) CDENGABC CEGED cA Bebop: CDEFGGHASC CEGED Cab6 “Harmonic Major . CDEFGABBC CEGBD CBs5, +2 Lydian Augmented CDERGHABC CEGEBD € ‘Anzmened CDIEGADBC. GEGED c 6th Mode of Harmonic Minor CDHEFFGABC CEGBD ce ‘Diminishedl(oegin with H step) CDODFERGABBC CEGBD c 4 Blues Seale CEDFFYGBRC | _CEGED i Majoe Pentatonie EDEGAC EGS DOMINANT 7th ‘SCALENAME. SCALEIN KEY OFC BASICCHORD os Dominant 7th wwewwew cpercamc ftiee~ ope? Bebop Seale WWHWWHHH CDEFGABBBC CEO EDD. for er Spanish or Jewish scale CESHMHWRO COBEFGAREDC CECBD (CH) CT ‘Lydian Dominant WW WH WH CDEFFGABLC CEGBS C76 Hinga WWHWHWW GDEFGAbBRC © CEGBbD - [CTs (has #4 & #5) _ Whole Tone(6 tone scale) WWWWWW -CDEFFGHERC CEG#BbD (Cro9{also has #9 & 44) Dimi wihHscp) HWHWHWHW CDs DtERGABDC .CEG Bb Db (DH) WRITTEN Major Peniatonic builioa 7 WW-3W—3 BOCDFGBb CEGEDD Cl sus 4. Bebop Scale WWHWWHHH CDEFGARDBC. GFGBDD Goret Minoe(Dorian) WHWWWHW CDEDFGABRC CEDGEDDF Cores Seale WHEHWWHW CDEDEFGABbC CEBGBBDF A wai me) Melodic Minoclascending) = «WHWWWWH CDEBFGABC | CEBGEDF Cat Bckop Minae WHWWHHWH CDEDFGGHABC CEbGED Corba Blucs Scale 3WHHSW CEBFF#GBDC ~ CEbGEDD® oC7 Fentsionie(Minor Penstonic) “3 WW5 W CEDFGEBC CEBGEDD. CAMEL msi 7) ‘Harmonic Minor WHWWH2H CDEFGabBC CEBGEDF Salt Diminished(begin with W sep) WHWEWHWH CDEDFFIGRABC CEbGEDF Sart hes Phrygian HWWWHWW CDsEDFGABBDC CEBGBS Cate: Furcor Nawal Minor, Aeotian WHWWHWW- CDEDFGADEBC CEbGESDF E ED SCALENAME WAHCONSTRUCTION SCALE IN KEY OFC ‘Half DiminishedLocsia) WHWWW CDbEDFODAPBRC CEDGp Ce Hale Diminished #2(Locrian #2) WHWHWWW GDEBFGbABBDC. CEBGBEBD = _ ‘COs or without 32} Bebop Scale HWWHHHWW CDSEBFGSGAbBRC CEbGbBb mM SCALENAME. WAHOONSTRUCTION SCALE IN KEY OF C . Diminishea($ tone scale) WHWHWHWH CDEDFGhABABC CEBGBA OTE: The skove chord symbol guide is my system ofnoration, I feel itbest represents the sounds Ihearin jane. The player should be aware that exch chord symbol represenis aseries of tones calleda scale. Even though a C749 would appear tohave only a raised Sth, it alsohas.ab?.+4.&-+5. Theentine C7+9 scale would looklike: Root, b8, #9, 3rd, 44,45, b7 & root (C. Db. Dl, E, F#,G#. Bb,C). My Cchaed syenbol abbreviation is C7+9 and tbe name of this scale is Diminished Whole Tone sometimes called Super Locrian or Altcted Scale, (C7tS appears to have only one altered tone (b9) but actually has theee: b9, 49 and 44. Thccntire scalc looks like this: Root, b9. +5. 3rd.+4 Sth, 6th. b7 & soot (C, Db, D#.E, Fa, G, A,Bb,C). Thisis called Diminished scale and my choed symbol abbreviation is C7b9_ All scales under the Dominant 7th category are scales that embellish the basic Doeniaant 7th sound. Some scales provide mech more tension than the basic dominant 7th sound and require practice and patience to grasp the essence of their meaning. encourage you is were withthe first side of Volume 3"Ths II-V7-I Progression” since itemphasizes Diminished and Diminished Whole Tone swales nd chords. ‘= Incategory#3, MINOR SCALE CHOICES, the PURE MINOR scale-chaice Isnotused very often. Ihave found the order of preference tobe Dorian, Bebop. Melodic. Blues, Pentaionic, and then any of the remaining Minor scale choices, i

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