Hey Adam. Yeah. Have you ever seen our award-winning million-viewed altered-scale YouTube video we did together?

Wait, million viewed? Well, I mean, are they listening to this podcast in 2028? Yes. I'm Adam Annas.

And you're listening to the You'll Hear podcast.

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Coming at you today, sponsored by Open Studio. Hey, Peter, we are doing a little sneak peek of our Black Friday sale. We're doing something we've never done before that's choose what you pay on our memberships. Piano Access Pass. All Exx has passed. That's all the courses we make, either all the piano courses we make or all the courses we make. you can choose what you pay and although it is a

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into a holistic community that is welcoming did you just sneaky or peekie did you just use holistic and sneaky peeky in the same sentence? I don't know what it means. I don't even know what that means. That's crazy. Yeah, go to open studio jazz.com slash why I to find out more. That's right. So what are we talking about today? Today we're talking about what does altered actually mean and four things you need to understand about altered. So this is a bit of... Did we cover this in that million-viewed YouTube video? Well, we did cover what the altered scale was. Okay. But there's a little confusion around the word altered, the nomenclature, as we like to say. Did we muddle the waters with our award-winning YouTube? I think...'re going to link below to that. I think jazz education has muddled the waters about what altered actually means. So we thought that we would just kind of, we'd clear the waters. We'd clarify exactly what do we mean? But first, we're going to muddle the waters. We're going to muddy the waters. So I think, I think we'll dive right in here. So four

things that you need to understand. The first thing you need to understand about altered, when we

talk about altered in jazz and jazz theory, is that just because it's an altered dominant

doesn't mean it's the altered dominant. Does that make sense? Right.

Exactly.

Like an altered dominant is saying that a dominant chord,

i.e., let's say a G7,

has an altered extension.

Yeah.

Any altered extension.

So I say, what are your, you know,

like, what are the altered dominance here?

That could be G7 flat 9,

natural 13. That could be g7 flat nine natural 13 that could be g7 sharp 5 that could be g7 sharp 11 that could also be g7 altered all of those are altered

because we're altering the extensions however However, there is one that's called

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