With content ranging from theory and history to practical exercises, examples, études, and play-along tracks, this book offers the most comprehensive guide ever written for this esoteric and traditionally obscure scale. Simply put, it reveals the last big secret of jazz fusion’s avant-garde.

According to which music theorist believes he first discovered it, this scale has been known variously as Messiaen’s mode 3, Slonimsky’s Tcherepnin Scale (honoring his colleague), and Tcherepnin’s own name for it— the 9-note augmented or nonatonic scale.

The nine notes of the double-symmetrical augmented scale have fascinated and crucially influenced legendary musicians like John Coltrane, Allan Holdsworth, Mark Turner, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Nelson Veras, Tim Miller, Gary Thomas, and Jerry Bergonzi, among many others.

Coltrane’s historic composition, “Giant Steps,” can be directly attributed to his familiarity with the nonatonic scale. With this book by Berklee College of Music honors graduate, Xabier Oró, you’ll know the secret too.

Includes access to online audio.

Audio Contents

TRACKS

01 Double-Symmetrical Augmented Scale Mode 1

02 Double-Symmetrical Augmented Scale Mode 2

03 Double-Symmetrical Augmented Scale Mode 3

04 Messiaen Ressonance Chord

05 Tcherepnin Scale

06 Augmented Steps (Chord Progression)

07 D Melodic Minor F+ Triad

08 E Neapolitan Minor G+ Triad

09 A Harmonic Minor C+ Triad

10 F+/G+/C+= F Double-Symmetrical Augmented Scale

11 Fsus2/Asus2/Cssus2 and Csus4/Esus4/Gssus4

12 Mode 1 Voicings

13 Mode 2 Voicings

14 Mode 3 Voicings

15 Hubert Nuss’s Orchestrations

16 Application IΔ V7 (Example)

17 Application IΔ V7 (Play-Along)

18 Application IΔ VI7 II-7 V7 (Example)

19 Application IΔ VI7 II-7 V7 (Play-Along)

20 Application to Blues (Example)

21 Application to Blues (Play Along)

22 Application: “InterStella” (Example)

23 Application: “InterStella” (Play-Along)