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chris mood
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chris mood
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09/24/2002 3:50 pm
Augmented chords (or Dominant 7#5 chords as I like to think of them as) usually appear in Minor progressions as the 5 chord, and sometimes as the 3 chord.
There are a lot of augmented sounding scales to use over top of them, one of my favorites is the whole tone. When using the wholetone over an augmented chord try starting the phrase with the 9th or b7, it sounds better then starting on the root.