The EVH Scale

[astrozombie]

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there you have it. in case youre having trouble identifying it: it would be kind alike this.

5-78
5-78
5-78

and so on. you can only land on the notes relevant to the key of the song, but you can use any other one of those as a passing tone and you'd be fine.

 

[GuitarStv]

Re: The EVH Scale

So, assuming that the first note on the E string is the root and that those are movable fingerings, at the 12th fret you have:

E - Gb - G - A - B
1 - 2 - b3 - 4 - 5

C - D - E - F - G
b6 - b7 - 1 - b2 - b3

A - Bb - B - Db - D
4 - b5 - 5 - 6 - b7


Your scale ends up being:

1 - b2 - 2 - 3 - b3 - 4 - b5 - 5 - b6 - 6 - b7

So you're saying that EVH plays every note on the neck of the guitar except 7ths?


Or it could be a combination of two modes:
1 - 2 - b3 - 4 - 5 - b6 - b7 (Aeolian mode or minor scale)

followed by:
1 - b2 - b3 - 4 - b5 - 5 - 6 - b7 (Dorian mode with an added b5)


Either way, I'm not sure that you can call that fingering pattern a scale really.

 

[PVFan]

Re: The EVH Scale

heiroglyphic gibberish

he's a pattern player, scales and modes be dammed.

I gave up on your post after 15 seconds of drawing blanks yet still knowing you're incorrect.

 

[PVFan]

Re: The EVH Scale

how the heck did you get this

So, assuming that the first note on the E string is the root and that those are movable fingerings, at the 12th fret you have:

E - Gb - G - A - B
1 - 2 - b3 - 4 - 5

C - D - E - F - G
b6 - b7 - 1 - b2 - b3

A - Bb - B - Db - D
4 - b5 - 5 - 6 - b7


Your scale ends up being:

1 - b2 - 2 - 3 - b3 - 4 - b5 - 5 - b6 - 6 - b7

So you're saying that EVH plays every note on the neck of the guitar except 7ths?

from this?

o-oo
o-oo
o-oo
o-oo
o-oo
o-oo

there you have it. in case youre having trouble identifying it: it would be kind alike this.

5-78
5-78
5-78

and so on. you can only land on the notes relevant to the key of the song, but you can use any other one of those as a passing tone and you'd be fine.

 

[GuitarStv]

Re: The EVH Scale

how the heck did you get this



from this?

I thought he was giving a fingerings chart for the six strings . . .

 

[PVFan]

Re: The EVH Scale

we've been trolled.

 

[Top Jimmy]

Re: The EVH Scale

Actually it's

00-0 and 0-00

See: I'm the One

I win thread.

 

[ericmeyer4]

Re: The EVH Scale

I always thought the scale he used look something like 8=D~. Isn't that how we got the term wanking? :dunce:

 

[astrozombie]

Re: The EVH Scale

I thought he was giving a fingerings chart for the six strings . . .

I was. and yes, that pattern is atonal, but have you ever sat down to dissect Eddie's work?

I'm not saying that's ALL he used... but try some speedy runs.

 

[astrozombie]

Re: The EVH Scale

he's a pattern player, scales and modes be dammed.

I gave up on your post after 15 seconds of drawing blanks yet still knowing you're incorrect.

dude... that scale I put up there... is kind of the pattern.

 

[J Moose]

Re: The EVH Scale

Eddie leans on A dorian a lot.

A - B - C - D - E - F# - G

Once in a while, on some of those ascending runs he'll tag C# rather then C natural, but that F# is almost always there against the A pedal/root note.

Little bit of music theory goes a long way...

 

[J Moose]

Re: The EVH Scale

I thought he was giving a fingerings chart for the six strings . . .

Riiight... some sorta tablature, but it doesn't even have the same notes throughout all the strings.

Really, starting from the low E & moving to the high E it would be this;

0 2 3
0 2 3
0 2 4
0 2 4
1 3 5
2 3 5

 

[PVFan]

Re: The EVH Scale

dude... that scale I put up there... is kind of the pattern.

yer giving ME "dude..." ?
after YOU typed an indecipherable post of utter nonsense as if you'd never seen a lick of guitar tab in yer life, and, you don't know what is meant by "pattern player". For real? Please don't, dude.

 

[astrozombie]

Re: The EVH Scale

yer giving ME "dude..." ?
after YOU typed an indecipherable post of utter nonsense as if you'd never seen a lick of guitar tab in yer life, and, you don't know what is meant by "pattern player". For real? Please don't, dude.

How did you NOT interpret those 6 lines as strings?

and maybe I was wrong with my interpretation of "pattern player" but then again no explanation was given.

 

[PVFan]

Re: The EVH Scale

????

are you on drugs? okay, so six strings were drawn for me? okay! then what? this?

578
578
578

a pattern --I mean a "scale", sorry-- of fretting on 3 strings only? am I close?

have you ever held a guitar mag with tab inside, ever?

is this what you mean?

--------
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-5-7-8-
-5-7-8-
-5-7-8-

or this?

--------
-5-7-8-
-5-7-8-
-5-7-8-
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--------

 

[PVFan]

Re: The EVH Scale

So, assuming that the first note on the E string is the root and that those are movable fingerings, at the 12th fret you have:

E - Gb - G - A - B
1 - 2 - b3 - 4 - 5

C - D - E - F - G
b6 - b7 - 1 - b2 - b3

A - Bb - B - Db - D
4 - b5 - 5 - 6 - b7


Your scale ends up being:

1 - b2 - 2 - 3 - b3 - 4 - b5 - 5 - b6 - 6 - b7

So you're saying that EVH plays every note on the neck of the guitar except 7ths?


Or it could be a combination of two modes:
1 - 2 - b3 - 4 - 5 - b6 - b7 (Aeolian mode or minor scale)

followed by:
1 - b2 - b3 - 4 - b5 - 5 - 6 - b7 (Dorian mode with an added b5)


Either way, I'm not sure that you can call that fingering pattern a scale really.

right. It's a pattern. Ed's a bit of a pattern player.

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: The EVH Scale

Sounds like AZ played an atonal warmup fingering pattern fast and said "Hey, that sounds like EVH!"

 

[Ball&Chain]

Re: The EVH Scale

Wasnt really all that confusing to me.

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When at first reading the OP I kinda took that to mean a movable 134 pattern straight up and down from E to E. Id think it was movable because there were no frets marked. Its just a pattern.

there you have it. in case youre having trouble identifying it: it would be kind alike this.

5-78
5-78
5-78

and so on. you can only land on the notes relevant to the key of the song, but you can use any other one of those as a passing tone and you'd be fine.

I took that as more a visual aid, saying for example if your start at the 6th string 5th fret and moved down from there etc. He said "and so on", so I would gather that the same thing on the G, B and High E strings are implied.

 

[Ball&Chain]

Re: The EVH Scale

Or it could be your basic A minor scale with an oddball note starting with a raised 2nd on the 2nd octave. I didnt go any farther down the scale than that.

 

[Ball&Chain]

Re: The EVH Scale

He did say it was the eddie scale. And in the words of immortal guitar legend Jeff Watson. If it sounds good, use it.