The Jazz Minor scale is contains a ‘flat 3’, relative to the Major scale. It is an incredible useful scale, because of the modes that are derived from it.
The Jazz Minor scale is essentially the same as the ascending version of the Melodic Minor scale.
The 7 Jazz Minor Modes
There are 7 modes of the Jazz Minor scale:
- Jazz Minor (b3)
- Dorian Flat 2 (b2, b3, b7)
- Lydian Augmented (#4, #5)
- Lydian Dominant (#4, b7)
- Mixolydian Flat 6 (b6, b7)
- Aeolian Flat 5 (b3, b5, b6, b7)
- Super Locrian (b2, b3, b4, b5, b6, b7)
Jazz Minor Scale in Every Key
Here are links to the Jazz Minor scale in different keys. Click on the links to view CAGED positions (notes and tabs) for each individual key.
- A Jazz Minor scale
- B Jazz Minor scale
- C Jazz Minor scale
- D Jazz Minor scale
- E Jazz Minor scale
- F Jazz Minor scale
- G Jazz Minor scale
- Ab Jazz Minor scale
- Bb Jazz Minor scale
- Db Jazz Minor scale
- Eb Jazz Minor scale
- F# Jazz Minor scale