Non-Western scales

[quotidian]

Aloha,

Where would I find examples of Arabian, East Indian, Asian and African scales?

Thank you in advance for any help on the subject.

Peace,

Dean

[Futurebass]

A great resource is Yusef Lateef's "Repository of scales and melodic patterns". Yusef is of course the brilliant jazz saxophonist/flutist. It's a big and sometimes bewildering book but you will have a lot to chew on for a few years or a lifetime. It's out of print. I found a copy recently at a music store in NYC.

Nicholas Slominsky's "Thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns" is a similar work. Coltrane and some of the other jazz guys referenced it, although it was written for the classical world.

Amazon has it. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/082...lance&n=283155

[Futurebass]

You got me thinking and I found these:

http://sound.jp/scale_viewer/asia2.html

http://www.lucaspickford.com/ragas.htm

I'm sure you could find more if you google such terms as "asian scales" "indian scales" etc.

[BassChuck]

If you really want to get into different scales from around the world, you'll have to have way to deal with micro-tuning. If you have a fretless bass that will do just fine. Sometime synthesizers have different temperments programed. If you don't know what this is, look into "Just Tone Tuning" and "Even Tone Tuning". Its a wild world, good luck.

[Dharmabum]

I might reccomend the "Bass Grimoire."

It covers a lot of ground and isn't as much of a mental overload as Slominsky can be.

Bass Grimoire at Amazon.com