Learn About Altering Scale Degrees

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Part of the video series: Playing Extended & Altered Guitar Chords

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Summary: Learn about altering scale degrees and altered chords with expert tips and advice on guitar lessons in this free video clip.

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Casey Cormier Casey Cormier has been playing both the guitar and bass for ten years, performing in rock and roll clubs along the New Jersey Coast as well as in New York Cit... read more

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Learn About Altering Scale Degrees

CASEY CORMIER: All right. So we've just finished looking at extended chords. And now that we understand playing a 9th chord, an 11th chord and a 13th chord, we can understand how also to alter those degrees. So remember, when we are figuring out where these extra degrees come from, we are looking at the two octaves C major scale starting on the 8th fret: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1 or if we consider 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. And the important ones were 9, 11 and 13. Okay? Now, for example, 9 can be flat, but that doesn't necessarily mean that our 2nd scale degree is flatted. We pretend that didn't happen; we pretend that everything is fine, and all of a sudden we hit the 9th here. Okay? The flat 9. And we pretend everything else is as is. This will create some series of texts on our chords.