Jazz Guitar - Dominant 7th Scales in 5 Positions

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Dan Leonard: Hi! I'm Dan Leonard and I'm going to talk about dominant seventh scales in the five positions.

The first dominant seventh scale covers the Mixed Lydian scale, or the Mixed Lydian mode, it's a mode of the Major scale. Once again, a little basic music theory will help you to understand that, but it's a great way to think of it, it's a Major scale with a flatted seventh note in it. So, there is the flatted seventh.

So, that's the Mixed Lydian scale based off of this E chord form, and once again you could take that flatted seventh from the Major scale and come up with the fingerings in all the positions.

Another common dominant seventh scale in jazz is the Lydian Flat Seventh scale, which is just like a Mixed Lydian, but it has a sharped (ph) fourth note. So, here is the sharped fourth, but it still has the flatted seventh.

So, that's the Lydian Flat Seventh in that position.

Those are two common dominant seventh scales in jazz.

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