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Which scales on a dominant seventh chord?
The dominant seventh chord (major third, minor seventh) creates tension that wants to resolve. It is the richest ground for scales: from tame Mixolydian to the most tense altered scale.
C7 = C · E · G · Bb
guide tones (3rd & 7th) avoid
The core scale
Mixolydian — natural dominant
RC 9D 3E 11F 5G 13A b7Bb
The basic dominant: major third and b7 that call for resolution, the rest diatonic. The sound and color of blues and rock once its eleventh (avoid note) is sidestepped; the starting point before any alteration.
9 more colors on a C7
Beyond the safe scale, the dominant seventh chord takes 9 more, from the gentlest to the most tense (Aebersold order):
- major pentatonic
- bebop dominant
- Phrygian dominant (Spanish)
- Lydian dominant (Mixolydian ♯11, 4th mode of melodic minor)
- Mixolydian ♭6 (melodic major)
- whole-tone
- half-whole diminished
- altered (super-Locrian, 7th mode of melodic minor)
- minor blues
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