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Thanks Paul, I'm happy to take on board your points, and without the chord being placed in a musical context, more than one option is / could be suitable. With this in mind I realise the purpose of a quick reference table is a little flawed without listing all possible scale choices, but as its just for me, I'm happy to just list the chord tones and take on board that I have to look at the musical context when the chord is being used in order to make choices about the notes I'm going to play.. (I suppose in practise this doesn't really happen as my ear is largely dictating what I play next, but something to think about nevertheless).

Hi Paul, thanks for your additional explanation, unfortunately in this instance the question arose about C7(b5) when looking at the chord in isolation - for a quick reference chart. See post above https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/319913-chords-and-the-scales-they-relate-to-c7b5/?do=findComment&comment=3464919 and yes, happy to take it with a pinch of salt.

Here's the completed table - all comments welcome

Thanks GerdO, thats great.. makes sense.

Maybe Gerd0? For the half-tone / whole-tone diminished scale, I'd be looking for C7b9 as the chord symbol. Like with the altered scale mentioned by Ceebass, I think I'd be looking for a different chord symbol than C7(b5)... Maybe as Ceebass suggested the "scale" for C7(b5) is only made up of the 4 chord tones???

Me too To elaborate on why I'm asking, I was chatting about chords with my keys player and he referred me to a source https://www.apassion4jazz.net/jazz_chords.html - I like to dig out the Free Jamey Aebersold Red Jazz book http://jazzbooks.com/jazz/FQBK when I need to freshen up on chords and scales - page 14 has a scale syllabus I use for deciphering chords and scales. However, I liked the look of my keys players' chart and thought I'd do one of my own to include whole scales, not just chord tones, so I started my own chart using his as a template. The grey filled cells show chord tones and I intend to fill in the notes. I've only done 2 lines in the example before noticing the fifth line and the chord C7(b5) hence the post.

Hi Ceebass, thanks for your reply. I agree with what you say about how a super locrian/altered scale is normally written - I'm confused about thinking of C7(b5) as a whole tone scale as the whole tone scale has a #5, and I'd be looking for C7+ (maybe C7(#5) or C7(#4,#5) ) Happy to take this onboard though - thanks

Hello folks Briefly, would you consider C7(b5) as an alternative/lazy way of writing C7(#11)? To me C7(b5) suggests a scale of C,D,E,F,Gb,A,Bb,C... yuk! What am I missing? Thanks

Congrats - great deal (slightly jealous)

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1507924159' post='3388890'] That photo looks absolutely fine to me. The silk is not on the 'speaking' portion of the string. [/quote]Thanks JapanAxe - as you mention, its working ok, just different from normal, and its not as if either the bass or strings are uncommon so I thought the strings would have a bigger gap between the nut and silk... Many thanks

[quote name='The59Sound' timestamp='1507913753' post='3388803'] Don't string them thru body? [/quote]Its a 68 re-issue with a 2 saddle bridge. But nice idea. I’m toying with fitting a modern Fender bridge with both options. Just wondered what others did?

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Vince came over and bought a couple of amps. Really nice chap who I would heartily recommend. Good to meet you fella Justin