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I hope I'm not out of line asking what a super-locrian scale is? I am
familiar with the basic 7 modes, but I guess this one is a guitar-only mode?

Natalie Anne Lanoville

I hope I'm not out of line asking what a super-locrian scale
is? I am familiar with the basic 7 modes, but I guess this
one is a guitar-only mode?

Hi Natalie
The super-locrian is the seventh mode of the melodic minor
scale. In practical terms, you pick a melodic minor scale a
half step above an altered chord and start it from the
seventh degree, and that's it. Let's say you have an E7alt
chord. The melodic minor scale 1/2step above is F. That
means the following notes:

F G Ab Bb C D E or:
b9 #9 3* b5 #5 7 1

*enharmonically Ab=G#

Try superimposing the arpeggios you get from this scale over
the appropriate altered chord.
BTW, it's far from being a guitar-only mode. :-) If you're
interested in this kind of stuff, I higly recommend you a
book by Bert Ligon called Comprehensive Technique for Jazz
Musicians. Plenty of exercises, ideas and theoretical and
practical info.

Hope I've been clear (it's pretty late down here)
Patricio Murphy
NAN - Buenos Aires, Argentina

--- In jazz_guitar@y..., "Natalie Lanoville" <gnat@w...> wrote:

I hope I'm not out of line asking what a super-locrian scale is? I
am familiar with the basic 7 modes, but I guess this one is a
guitar-only mode?

Natalie Anne Lanoville

Hi Natalie,

It's not guitar-only by any means. It's the seventh mode of the
_melodic_ minor scale (aka jazz minor scale), and also goes by the
names "altered scale", "diminished whole-tone scale", and "Pomeroy
scale".

The C melodic/jazz minor scale is C D Eb F G A B

so the B super-locrian scale is B C D Eb F G A

Transposing this to C, you get C Db Eb Fb Gb Ab Bb.

Let me know if I'm making sense to you.

-Paul