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Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:35 am
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Well, just wondering what most people consider the easiest/best scale to improv, play, or compose in other than the pentatonic and why, personally, I like the phrygian-dominant a lot, but I want to experiment with others...See Ya!


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This may sound stupid but I just use the Pentatonic Scale... XD adding in notes obv..

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Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:51 am
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DanielMGardner wrote:
This may sound stupid but I just use the Pentatonic Scale... XD adding in notes obv..


yep me too, and I add notes that feel right. unless i'm improvising in a sad song, than I use minor ofcourse. I don't even know all those other scales :oops:

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The Jerm wrote:
DanielMGardner wrote:
This may sound stupid but I just use the Pentatonic Scale... XD adding in notes obv..


yep me too, and I add notes that feel right. unless i'm improvising in a sad song, than I use minor ofcourse. I don't even know all those other scales :oops:


+1. I really need to sit down over the summer when school is over for me and just learn scales because I pretty much use pentatonics.


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I can goof around in A minor pentatonic for hours on end. It may not be original, but it feels good. 8)

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Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:11 am
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The Harmonic is a fun one. Sounds vry metal in a Major scale way 8)

R m2 M3 P4 P5 m6 M7

I like the sound of Aug 2nd intervals!

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I too spend an inordinate amount of time in minor pentatonic. Then again, I play a lot of Blues.

I don't even play major pent very well !! :oops:


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I play most of my blues in minor 7ths so I improvise around in minors.


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When Improvising I try not to tie myself down to one scale, I really like to cange from Minor To Major in mid run. That being said I usualy start in a Pentatonic scale and move into a Diatonic scale, like an Aeolian or Mixolydian mode. A move I ripped of from Jimmy Page, (think Since I've Been Loving You or No Quarter). But once I've been at it a minute my only guideline is "What haven't I tried yet?"

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im on the same boat as a few here, i play the pentatonic with some added notes, i really need to practice my scales also. i should just try to take lessons, i know if i pay someone to teach me id prolly put more effort into it


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I pretty much use the structure of the Am pentatonic scale in the key of Em on the 12th fret. Just with a different rhythm and I play with the notes in the scale a bit. Hey, I have fun, that's all I care about. :P


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stratmansteve wrote:
I too spend an inordinate amount of time in minor pentatonic. Then again, I play a lot of Blues.

I don't even play major pent very well !! :oops:


yeah, major is weird. But it isn't used very often either, is it?
My old teacher said it was only used in country and western and maybe in very happy songs...

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I use the minor pentatonic most of the time, but sometimes use the major scale for Claptonesque things (think Tears in Heaven).


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