Favorite Scales to use

[5intheface]

Playing mostly blues and jazz and rock, I of course favor the minor penatonic and blues scale heavily. But I love the sound of the lydian and pure minor. I suppose those are modes technically though. It's tough to throw them into rock, but can make some cool stuff when you do.

One of guitarists can freackin work a harmonic minor scale like nothing, I play spanish sounding stuff underneath, but that scale is cookin'!

[Whafrodamus]

I like the ones that fit with the chord changes :-p.

[Snarf]

Whatever fits the chord changes.

But I've said this somewhere else, it's more about chord tones, available tensions, and passing tones for me. That's how I think of soloing, rather than scales.

[I-Love-Ratm]

"I find D Minor the saddest scale of all" anyone.......?

[5intheface]

No one has preferance for the sound of a scale? If you were to write a piece and wanted a sound you really liked, there isn't a scale that really appealed to your ears?

I'm not being weird am I?

[Edwcdc]

Originally Posted by I-Love-Ratm

"I find D Minor the saddest scale of all" anyone.......?

It makes me weep instantly.