fun scales

what are some fun scales you guys like to do? mine is an arab scale (not so good at typing a tab yet)


g|---------------7-8---------------|
d|----6-7-9-10-----10-9-7-6-----|
a|7-8-------------------------8-7-|
e|----------------------------------|

kyle892 wrote:what are some fun scales you guys like to do? mine is an arab scale (not so good at typing a tab yet)


g|---------------7-8---------------|
d|----6-7-9-10-----10-9-7-6-----|
a|7-8-------------------------8-7-|
e|----------------------------------|

WOW! That's one awesome sounding scale!

I'm boring... I like the Minor pentatonic and Blues scale

mmmm the blues scale. Big fan.

Only scales I know are major scales.

I don't know what any of the scales I play are called.

Heywood317 wrote:Only scales I know are major scales.

Me 2...

Cliff em' all wrote:

Heywood317 wrote:Only scales I know are major scales.

Me 2...

I don't even have the major scale memorized o_o'...

These last few posts are making me feel better

You could always just make your own sub scale with the Major scale.

I usually like starting with a simle. Root, 3,5,3 or Root, 5,3,5. Putting an octave or a slide in there.

Just start with the A on the E string (5th fret)

It's nice, easy and you can have great fun with it.

lokki wrote:You could always just make your own sub scale with the Major scale.

I usually like starting with a simle. Root, 3,5,3 or Root, 5,3,5. Putting an octave or a slide in there.

Just start with the A on the E string (5th fret)

It's nice, easy and you can have great fun with it.

Isn't that just a triad?

Triads/5th chords consist of the the Root, 3rd and 5th of a scale. So if you saw AM5 on some sheet music or someone told you to play with that chord along with them you would play any note of the the major triad in A, and it'll sound good . And 7th chords use the Root, 3rd, 5th and 7th, and a AM7 would be a major 7th chord in A with the Root, 3rd, 5th and 7th sounding nice. Theres 9th, 11th, 13th, etc too, but it's pretty easy to work out which notes you want to be playing in the chord. And minor, diminished, half diminished, augmented, dominant, etc. chords all give different moods.

You could also make a proper 3-note-at-the-same-time chord or a double stop (2 notes at the same time) with these notes too

...If anyone wants me to talk more about some more chords and stuff like that I'd be happy to help

Harmonic Minor

Scales are nothing but Fretting patterns. Learn what Pattern goes with what scale and you can play any scale starting with any root.

Unless you;re in first position.

SuperMaximo93 wrote:

lokki wrote:You could always just make your own sub scale with the Major scale.

I usually like starting with a simle. Root, 3,5,3 or Root, 5,3,5. Putting an octave or a slide in there.

Just start with the A on the E string (5th fret)

It's nice, easy and you can have great fun with it.

Isn't that just a triad?

Triads/5th chords consist of the the Root, 3rd and 5th of a scale. So if you saw AM5 on some sheet music or someone told you to play with that chord along with them you would play any note of the the major triad in A, and it'll sound good . And 7th chords use the Root, 3rd, 5th and 7th, and a AM7 would be a major 7th chord in A with the Root, 3rd, 5th and 7th sounding nice. Theres 9th, 11th, 13th, etc too, but it's pretty easy to work out which notes you want to be playing in the chord. And minor, diminished, half diminished, augmented, dominant, etc. chords all give different moods.

You could also make a proper 3-note-at-the-same-time chord or a double stop (2 notes at the same time) with these notes too

...If anyone wants me to talk more about some more chords and stuff like that I'd be happy to help

Easy now lad, I haven't gone that far yet
But it's nice of you to explain my misinterpetation of a scale

Point is, last couple of weeks i have been working day of 11 hours or more and just haven't made the time to get through this. Luckily for the next week or so seems to be a little more easy going and less stressful, so i'll get to it.

I haven't started on any of the theory yet.. i can do the major scale but only cause dman did a video on it
I rarely use standard tuning so i didnt feel the need to learn the notes on the fretboard.
I'll get around to it sometime.. probably when i get my new bass and get my funkyness going in standard.

Protoplm wrote:

Cliff em' all wrote:

Heywood317 wrote:Only scales I know are major scales.

Me 2...

I don't even have the major scale memorized o_o'...

i'm in a similar situation. i can't figure this shizzle out for the life of me! i was wondering if this could be a problem down the road though?

kakariko-tramp wrote:

Protoplm wrote:

Cliff em' all wrote:

Heywood317 wrote:Only scales I know are major scales.

Me 2...

I don't even have the major scale memorized o_o'...

i'm in a similar situation. i can't figure this shizzle out for the life of me! i was wondering if this could be a problem down the road though?

Dman has a video explaining the major scale.

Hehey! I know that scale It's a very popular scale around where I live. Especially combined with a 7/8 time signature.