Originally Posted by: HambergHow do you augment a 2nd? Flatten the root? This would change the name of the scale wouldn't it??? Lets see. a 4th and 5th can be augmented naturally. Im not seeing it with the 2nd.
If you're augmenting the second why would you flatten the root? An Augmented second is one and a half steps.
You simply raise the major second a half-step, the same way you augment fifths and fourths.