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Summary: Play a minor seven flat five diatonic scale on a jazz saxophone if you're an advanced jazz sax player; learn how with tips from our expert jazz sax player in this free sax video music lesson.
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Mitch Kaplan Proficient on multiple instruments, Mitch Kaplan has performed and taught music for two decades. He is also a published author of music education books and on... read more
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Questions & AnswersFor Expert Village this is Mitch Kaplan. In this segment we will be talking about the diatonic scales. I wanted to mention that in the A major scale to make it a minor seven, you would have had the F sharp, the C sharp and the G sharp. These did’t include but we had to lower the third, the C to make it the minor, so we lowered the third and our rule again is to lower the seventh to make it a minor chord. That is why we had the G natural. Moving right along, now here is our only different one. This is the half diminished. This is where the half diminished would come into play. It is very rarely used, it is used in a lot of jazz improvisation, kind of like a trick for the five chord. It is built off our seven scale degree, in our C major scale we have the B natural, now in the key of B we would have five sharps that is F, C, G, D and A. These sharps would be lowered, there is the D natural, if we every other note, so we would have B, D then we would have F natural, alright, and that would be because the F was sharp in the key of B and now you also have the minor seventh. So it is really a minor seven flat five, that is what we call it in jazz and there are the four different chords and the diatonic scale.
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