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Record 1 2010-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Music (General)
CONT

One of the most important jazz scales, besides the bebop scales, is the diminished whole tone scale. It is the seventh mode of the melodic minor scale and is also called altered or super Locrian scale.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Musique (Généralités)
OBS

La gamme altérée correspond au septième mode de la gamme mineure mélodique.

Spanish

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