What is the most brutal scale?

[Thor]

Are you kidding?

My bathroom scale. That little bastage lies to me all the time!

 

[Darkstrike]

Chromatics are easy! You start with your fretted note, pluck the string hard, then slide your finger down 12 frets. Voila! Chromatic scale.

Do that on a B string, gonna be pretty brutal sounding.

 

[lunarpollen]

In all seriousness, my guitarist and I always talk about what makes things heavy. We play in a doomy/stonerish heavy rock band and we tune to Eb. People always ask us if we tune real low. They never believe me. But as my guitarist always says, heaviness has more to do with tension than actually lowness of the note. It took me a while but, I'm coming around to that line of thinking.

+1000

Detuning does not make something sound heavier, it just makes it sound detuned! Heaviness has more to do with dynamics, texture, mood, tension and release, and the way the different sounds in the band mesh together and interact.

 

[George Himmel]

A scale does as little without harmonic context as individual notes do without the context of scaler intervals.

 

[TheMarkV]

i side with father of fires and lunarpollen on this one.
but until you can get that down, anything sounds heavy staying on or around a low b string.

 

[RedemptionBass]

I think my scale is pretty brutal.

It's always saying "GET OFF ME, LARDY!! YOU ARE FAT!!... FATTY BOOMBALATTY!!!"

I mean, I know I'm a little rotund... but it doesn't have to be so mean.

 

[Higgie]

C Major is a killer. How the HELL do you guys remember all them naturals!?

 

[NoobOnRoad]

Seriously, I found that Bb minor is the more ''Russian'' scale. But I didn't founded a scale that sound heavy yet, doomy yes, but heavy, no.

 

[walker rosewood]

you need this...

http://www.amazon.com/Guitar-Grimoire-Compendium-Formulas-Scales/dp/0825821711

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The Guitar Grimoire: A Compendium of Formulas for Guitar Scales and Modes

Your local guitar center might even have it.

 

[father of fires]

Thanks for all the helpful tips but, this was a joke people. That is why it was posted in the humor forum. Although, maybe someone new to writing brooooooooooootal music will learn a thing or two.

 

[Bocete]

Which note is best for metal?

 

[Deluge Of Sound]

B#

 

[Bocete]

is that... IS THAT A SHARP!!?

No metal has sharp notes!

Instead of B# use dbb​. Double flat = double metal!

 

[Deluge Of Sound]

Metal is all about sharp. Sharp, pointy, rusted metal.

 

[ryognbass]

in all honesty I'm a fan of the modes plus tensions to pull parts of a song. much like incubus' morning view album. it goes HARD

 

[Korladis]

I thought it was Locrian

Agreed. It's got the lowered 2nd and diminished 5th in it.



My band doesn't really play very "brutal" music, despite being black metal.

 

[Chupacabra]

By far, the most brutal scale has to be the Scoville Scale. Invalid Link Removed a some of the most brutal examples of it

 

[Korladis]

B#

 

[Deluge Of Sound]

Please. That's not nearly as metal as B#. Two downward slashes=twice the metal.

 

[theunknowndude]

in all honesty I'm a fan of the modes plus tensions to pull parts of a song. much like incubus' morning view album. it goes HARD

ummm I disbelieve this

morning view compared to fungus amongus and SCIENCE???