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What are your favorite/coolest sounding scales?
- Thread starter Jazzin'
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dlloyd said:Play around with progressions containing Cm, Bm, Ab and G chords... noodle about over the top with C Hungarian minor and it's instant Klezmer!
I'll have to give that a shot.
And now it's my all-time favorite scale. It's called the Hungarian Minor and contains:
R, +2, -3, x4, P5, -6, +7 (+ for major, - for minor)
Hahaha! I've been playing this thing all day since I read this. Turn up everything on a Jazz, boing the open E-string with your fingernail and riff over it starting at the octave on the A-string's seventh fret. Now, where's that belly-dance percussion CD I had to jam along to?
R, +2, -3, x4, P5, -6, +7 (+ for major, - for minor)
Hahaha! I've been playing this thing all day since I read this. Turn up everything on a Jazz, boing the open E-string with your fingernail and riff over it starting at the octave on the A-string's seventh fret. Now, where's that belly-dance percussion CD I had to jam along to?
Vorago said:
I meant that there are only 3 individual scales within the realm of symetrical dominant and symetrical diminished.
Ex. 1
D symetrical dominant is the same scale as C symetrical diminished.
Ex. 2
D symetrical dominant is the same scale as F symetrical dominant.
There are 2 standard types of octatonic scales but only 3 actual scales (assuming you're ok with accepting that scales with the same notes are the same scales).
Sorry. I found that really hard to explain. Thank god I'm not in education. I can play and apply this stuff all day long but I can't explain it concisely to save my life.
Is there a name for this?
1 +2 -3 x4 P5 +6 +7
By x4, I mean tritone/augmented 4th.
Hungarian sharp 6?
1 +2 -3 x4 P5 +6 +7
By x4, I mean tritone/augmented 4th.
Hungarian sharp 6?
My favorite scales are the blues scale, the minor pentatonic, mixolydian and phrygian.
A very useful scale I enjoy is described by Mike Holand in Mel Bay's Complete blues Bass book. He calls it the "altered blues scale." It contains these intervals: Root, major second, minor third, major third, perfect fourth, flat fifth, perfect fifth, major sixth, flat seventh and octave.
It is actually a mixolydian scale with an added minor third and a flat five. The altered blues scale is very helpful for making bluesy bass lines.
A very useful scale I enjoy is described by Mike Holand in Mel Bay's Complete blues Bass book. He calls it the "altered blues scale." It contains these intervals: Root, major second, minor third, major third, perfect fourth, flat fifth, perfect fifth, major sixth, flat seventh and octave.
It is actually a mixolydian scale with an added minor third and a flat five. The altered blues scale is very helpful for making bluesy bass lines.
Jazzin' said:
PTBassMan said:
It's the intervals in the scale. + means it's major, - means minor. So that one is root, major second, minor third, augmented fourth, perfect fifth, minor sixth, major seventh.
RE: "I dig the Phrygian Maj. Sounds quite exotic but not completely foreign."
That's because it is basically a minor sounding scale played over perhaps a major chord. Starts from the third position and relates well to a lot of chord progressions. Almost has a dark semi blues feel.
That's because it is basically a minor sounding scale played over perhaps a major chord. Starts from the third position and relates well to a lot of chord progressions. Almost has a dark semi blues feel.
my favorite scale is the major scale, because everything else more easily understood as a simple variation of the major scale.
Weather or not a scale sounds 'cool' depends entirely on context.
While there is no 'official' notation beyond musical staff,
More commonly (in this forum ) this would be written 1 2 3 4 5 6 7,
modifying only the notes that would differentiate it form the major scale:
1 2 b3 #4 5 6 7
So we can easily see it's a major scale with a flat 3 and a sharp 4.
I find this notation most efficient for memorizing both scales and chords
In academic circles your are more likely to see an explicit calling out of each interval as Major /Minor / Perfect/Augmented/Diminished, which is unambiguous.
Weather or not a scale sounds 'cool' depends entirely on context.
While there is no 'official' notation beyond musical staff,
More commonly (in this forum ) this would be written 1 2 3 4 5 6 7,
modifying only the notes that would differentiate it form the major scale:
1 2 b3 #4 5 6 7
So we can easily see it's a major scale with a flat 3 and a sharp 4.
I find this notation most efficient for memorizing both scales and chords
In academic circles your are more likely to see an explicit calling out of each interval as Major /Minor / Perfect/Augmented/Diminished, which is unambiguous.
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I don't care of the scale that much because it always depend on the chord or chord progression which scale will better represent what I hear
