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Scales

  • 17-10-2003 1:35pm
    #1
    BaZmO*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭


    Could somebody please post a link to a site that has scales that don't get too complicated, i.e. start going into detail about root notes and such. (I'm only a noobie!!!)
    I just want sites that tab out the notes to practice.

    I can do the pentatonic (sp?) scale and want to start practising other scales.

    Thanks in advance,

    B.


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  • #2
    Duritz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 141 ✭✭Duritz


    I am only a newbie to scales also. But my understanding was there are A-Minor, D-Minor etc Pentatonic scales, not just one?


    E| 5--8
    |
    5--7
    |
    5--7
    |
    5--7
    |
    5--8
    e|
    5--8


    Is the A-Minor one (i think).

    You can kinda see the RHCP using a similar scalle in the "Cant Stop Intro.


  • #3
    oddlyaromatic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 96 ✭✭oddlyaromatic


    Duritz your tab's upside-down, but I see what you mean. A pentatonic scale means simply a scale with five notes instead of seven. There is a set format. I've never learned what it is.

    My advice is to start of by learning any major scale in two octaves. Start with C, doing the following:

    --C--D--E--F--G--A--B--C
    e
    B
    G
    2--4--5
    D
    2--3--5
    A-3--5
    E

    (I know it's not the easiest way but it's a moveable form (the one I find the most straight forward)

    Then same thing, starting at the last note of the previous scale. A stupid sentence, here:

    --C--D--E--F--G--A--B--C
    e
    5--7--8
    B
    5--6--8
    G-5--7
    D
    A
    E

    That's the major scale in the root or Dorian mode.

    Don't give a **** what that means. Practice using the scale in different ways, get a song you know is in C (eg Let It Be) and play over it, whatever you like, picking your notes exclusively from the above positions. Try to play them both forwards and backwards. This way you can get to know the scale inside out and improvise over whatever backing chords you are given. Keep trying, you will begin to hear when you are right or when what you play clashes with the chord being played.


  • #4
    SantaHoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,488 ✭✭✭SantaHoe


    Anyone got some good sites for guitar lessons, been to activeguitar.com which was pretty good.
    But right now I'm struggling with barre chords, good god man... my fingers just don't bend that way!
    You'd almost want your fingers broken and reset to play some of those chords :/


  • #5
    herbie747
    Closed Accounts Posts: 590 ✭✭✭herbie747


    Originally posted by oddlyaromatic
    Duritz your tab's upside-down, but I see what you mean. A pentatonic scale means simply a scale with five notes instead of seven. There is a set format. I've never learned what it is.

    My advice is to start of by learning any major scale in two octaves. Start with C, doing the following:

    --C--D--E--F--G--A--B--C
    e
    B
    G
    2--4--5
    D
    2--3--5
    A-3--5
    E

    (I know it's not the easiest way but it's a moveable form (the one I find the most straight forward)

    Then same thing, starting at the last note of the previous scale. A stupid sentence, here:

    --C--D--E--F--G--A--B--C
    e
    5--7--8
    B
    5--6--8
    G-5--7
    D
    A
    E

    That's the major scale in the root or Dorian mode.

    Don't give a **** what that means. Practice using the scale in different ways, get a song you know is in C (eg Let It Be) and play over it, whatever you like, picking your notes exclusively from the above positions. Try to play them both forwards and backwards. This way you can get to know the scale inside out and improvise over whatever backing chords you are given. Keep trying, you will begin to hear when you are right or when what you play clashes with the chord being played.

    That's not Dorian at all - it's just the major scale (it's Ionian if anything).

    You should start off learning your pentatonics, but there's no point in learning the pentatonic shapes if you don't know where they come from, or when to use them.
    PM me your address and I can send you some basics in the post.

    If you want an easy way out - if a song is in C or Am - you can play the following scale, starting on A (5th fret). If a song is in F or Dm, play the same scale starting on D. If a song is in G or Em, play this scale starting on E (12th fret).

    This is the most common shape in the pentatonic minor scale;

    e----5
    8
    B----5
    8
    G----5
    7
    D----5
    7
    A----5
    7
    E----5
    8


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