Which scales do you use? - Music Banter Music Banter

Go Back   Music Banter > Artists Corner > Talk Instruments
Register Blogging Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read
Welcome to Music Banter Forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with over 70,000 other registered members. After you create your free account, you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 1,100,000 posts.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 12-22-2012, 04:28 PM   #11 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
blastingas10's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 2,126
Default

Oh ya, that's what all players aim for I think. I saw mark knopfler live and was just blown away by how fluent his playing was.
blastingas10 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-22-2012, 05:00 PM   #12 (permalink)
Justifiable Idiocracy
 
Bloozcrooz's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Texas
Posts: 1,244
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by blastingas10 View Post
Oh ya, that's what all players aim for I think. I saw mark knopfler live and was just blown away by how fluent his playing was.
Yeah its almost discouraging at times watching people play on a whole different level.
__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by Skaligojurah View Post
Fuck you, bloozin! Your stupid thread too!
<DoctorSoft>: You know life is good when you take Viagra to jack off lol
Quote:
Originally Posted by Il Duce View Post
- Hendrix didn't even play the blues that well -

Amongst Mb's Most
Hated
(Smiley Face)
Bloozcrooz is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-22-2012, 05:53 PM   #13 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
blastingas10's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 2,126
Default

Definitely. It just makes you think "what am I doing?" But you gotta remember that it's not a contest. There are plenty of guitar players that I like more than players who are more technical.
blastingas10 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-22-2012, 07:11 PM   #14 (permalink)
Justifiable Idiocracy
 
Bloozcrooz's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Texas
Posts: 1,244
Default

I'm actually glad you made this thread cause it inspired me to go back and refresh my memory a little on some things. I havent been playing all that much lately and I've gotten stale in a few areas. Plus I get bored just playing by myself with nobody to pick rythym whenver I discover something new or just want to jam.
__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by Skaligojurah View Post
Fuck you, bloozin! Your stupid thread too!
<DoctorSoft>: You know life is good when you take Viagra to jack off lol
Quote:
Originally Posted by Il Duce View Post
- Hendrix didn't even play the blues that well -

Amongst Mb's Most
Hated
(Smiley Face)
Bloozcrooz is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-22-2012, 11:00 PM   #15 (permalink)
Justifiable Idiocracy
 
Bloozcrooz's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Texas
Posts: 1,244
Default

I stumbled across this just now, and thought you might like this. These are the kind of people that just make me sick, and want to quit playing altogether. This dude is just shredding this acoustic on his solo's. The two guys singing suck ass, and should persue another line of work if this is what they do for a living. Ignore them butchering the song with their vocals, and try an focus on just the dude farthest to the right sitting down playing. Its like he's not even trying.

__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by Skaligojurah View Post
Fuck you, bloozin! Your stupid thread too!
<DoctorSoft>: You know life is good when you take Viagra to jack off lol
Quote:
Originally Posted by Il Duce View Post
- Hendrix didn't even play the blues that well -

Amongst Mb's Most
Hated
(Smiley Face)
Bloozcrooz is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-10-2013, 10:21 AM   #16 (permalink)
Groupie
 
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Scotland
Posts: 7
Default

You can't go wrong the pentatonics but getting into the jazz funk stuff , mixolydian , lydian and harmonic minor
kevinh8782 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-15-2013, 01:01 PM   #17 (permalink)
Groupie
 
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Orlando, FL USA
Posts: 32
Default

Lately I've been working on internalizing and really being able to apply the modes of the harmonic minor. I can use in harmonic minor itself pretty well when called for, but hearing and effortlessly being able to apply, say the Locrian #6 isn't quite as natural and doesn't come up as much, but it's an interesting sound. The trick is hearing when to use that sound and then be able to apply it when needed without thought. That's the goal for any scale. To be able to have that sound at your disposal.

I use the major scale and it's modes pretty regularly, chromatic runs, major/minor pentatonic, blues scale, etc. It really depends on the song and the genre.

In terms of thought process, I really refer everything back to the major scale. What's #'d or flatted relative to the major scale? Dorian is b3, b7. Lydian is #4. Harmonic Minor is b3, b6. For me it's easier to remember, and utlimately it gets closer to hearing each note relative to what it's played over. What does a b3 sound like, for instance? In the end it's about playing melodies and phrases, not scales. Scales are the frame of reference to build off of, imho.

Last edited by ZeyerGTR; 01-15-2013 at 01:15 PM.
ZeyerGTR is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-15-2013, 01:14 PM   #18 (permalink)
DO LIKE YOU.
 
P A N's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 629
Default



stay classy.
P A N is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-18-2013, 02:09 AM   #19 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 113
Default

Definitely a lot of major7s, in the II IV I progression
CLOSER is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-25-2018, 04:58 AM   #20 (permalink)
...here to hear...
 
Lisnaholic's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: He lives on Love Street
Posts: 4,444
Default

Today the http://www.musicbanter.com/games-lis...litz-game.html brings us back to the time of Bloozcrooz and Blastingas - both guitar-music connoisseurs and great posters in their day.

As for me, all I know about scales is that I have a set in the bathroom. (By PM, negotiations are currently underway to sell this joke to Trollheart.)
__________________
"Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953
Lisnaholic is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Similar Threads



© 2003-2024 Advameg, Inc.