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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andy Summers When you’re looking at the conventions for chord naming, it’s easy to become confused around sus, add and altered ...
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How I practice altered dominant chords & scales

In this video, I walk through my personal routine for practicing altered dominant chords, especially rootless voicings for #5/#9—and the diminished whole-tone scale (a.k.a. the 7th mode of the melodic ...
In my previous column, we looked at the difference between extended and altered chords, and I wanted to give some further examples and explanations of how altered chords work in practical terms. After ...