
Half-diminished, Locrian ♮2, or Aeolian ♭5Īltered scale, Super Locrian, or Altered dominant scale These modes are derived by treating a different note as the tonic.Īcoustic scale, Lydian dominant, Mixolydian ♯4, or OvertoneĪeolian dominant, Mixolydian ♭6, Descending melodic major, or Hindu The jazz minor scale, like the diatonic scale, has seven modes.

This scale may be used to resolve to C in the progression G 7–C (over G 7, which need not be notated G 7 ♭5 ♯5 ♭9 ♯9). The jazz minor scale contains all of the altered notes of the dominant seventh chord whose root is a semitone below the scale's tonic: "In other words to find the correct jazz minor scale for any dominant 7th chord simply use the scale whose tonic note is a half step higher than the root of the chord." For example, the G 7 chord and A ♭ jazz minor scale: the A ♭ scale contains the root, third, seventh, and the four most common alterations of G 7. The scale may be considered to originate in the use of extensions beginning with the seventh in jazz and thus the necessity to, "chromatically raise the diatonic 7th to create a stable, tonic sound," rather than use a minor seventh chord, associated with ii, for tonic. Whole, half, whole, whole, whole, whole, half Jazz theory The intervals between the notes of the jazz minor scale follow the sequence below: Thus, the jazz minor scale can be represented by the following notation: Audio playback is not supported in your browser.
