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Lesson 1 - Used Scales
Course material
| For this course you may need understanding of all the major scales. When you do not know them yet, take a look at this Major Scale Chart first, it describes them all clearly. You will just have to take the time to practice them every day a bit, cause it really works out! Believe me! | ||||||
| Underneath the scales of Pentatonic Minor, Mixolydian and Blues can be seen. It is all played from the 5th position, so the key note for each is A. The places with a red dot are the key notes, and the blue dots of the Blues Scale are their to show the only difference with the Pentatonic Minor Scale. So if you have the Pentatonic Minor Scale in your mind, it is easy to slide over to the Blues Scale. | ||||||
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See how to pick these scales over the whole fretboard at The Guitar Scales |
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Pentatonic Minor Like te name mentions, it is a Penta scale which stands for five, so it only has 5 notes in it from the whole scale. So if for example, we take the major scale of A, we get: A, B, C#, D, E, F#, G# To get to the Pentatonic Minor scale, you have to take the 2th and 6th note away and flatten the 3th and 7th. That is all! Then you will get to: A, C, D, E, G It is exactly the same for the C scale: C, D, E, F, G, A, B. When it is in Pentatonic Minor, it becomes: C, D#, F, G, A#. For the other scales, it is exactly the same. To know how the same scale goes over the whole fretboard, you will just have to take some time to search the same notes up on another position. When there is slided between key notes, you just have to slide up or slide down. If you want for example the Pentatonic Minor Scale of A#, you will just have to slide one position up. The pattern stays exactly the same to the picture above. |
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Blues Scale Next in line is the Blues Scale. Like is seen in the diagram, the blue dots resemble the difference between the Pentatonic Minor Scale. And if you just have a closer look you will see it is the flatted 5th note from the major scale is the one that adds up. So in the example of the A scale: A, B, C#, D, E, F#, G# the 5th note is the E. And if this one is flatted it becomes the D#, and this one is added! That is the only difference, as simple as that! |
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Mixolydian Scale This is also not such a hard scale as it may seem at first. Because when you look closely, the only difference is with the major scale, is the 7th note which is flatted. Again lets go back to our A scale: A, B, C#, D, E, F#, G#. This is how it looks in a diagram: (7th is marked red)
The only thing we do now, is flatten the 7th, so the G#, and this will give us immediately the mixolydian mode: A, B, C#, D, E, F#, G. The picture of the mixolydian can be seen by the start of this lesson. Really easy he! If you take even a closer look, you will see that the A mixolydian scale is the same as the major D scale. But theory about this link you can find somewhere else, hope this will do for now. |
| Remember these scales well when playing funky riffs or just soloing! If you just hear which keys is played in, and you use one of these scales or even combine them of that particular key it will sound really nice! Funky grooves will sound much nicer then when you just play what pops in your mind! More theory will be handled in further lessons! |
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