What song do you point to when you describe certain scales?

jon the art guy

jon the art guy

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As the title.

I'm going to start simple, as I'm a simple...stupid man. Every time someone asks me how to play guitar and how do I sound good as fast as possible, I always tell them to look up blues scale and play along with this song:

I tell them that this is practically everything AC/DC plays and everything Tom Morello gets recorded playing...as well as most every blues song and rock song after the late 60s.

Main reason I'm asking is to learn. I suck, really. I'd love to have some examples of famous songs with different scales to play.
 
Re: What song do you point to when you describe certain scales?

Weird. I don't remember that song being on the soundtrack for that movie...and I listened to he hell out of that soundtrack.
 
Re: What song do you point to when you describe certain scales?

It was background in one of the butch scenes, I think. They rereleased the soundtrack later with more songs on it.

off u see did MRSAge, I m on tapa talk and auto correct is hating on me
 
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Iron Maiden's Powerslave heavily relies on the Phrygian mode.

Just make an early self note that not everything that sounds Middle Eastern is the Phrygian mode; there's another entire modal system with about 90 modes just for Middle Eastern music (al-Maqamat). Phyrygian is just the most common in the Western world (as well as the Harmonic minor scale/Nahawand). Huge pet-peeve of mine.

The song Black Sabbath off the album Black Sabbath by the band Black Sabbath (I love saying that haha) is the perfect example of a tri-tone.

Just about every Slayer song is chromatic.

If you want examples of odd/different time signatures, here's a few:

Alice In Chains - Them Bones (7/4)
Tool - Just about every song they've ever made
Queen - I'm In Love With My Car (6/8)
Queen - Sweet Lady (3/4)
Queen - March Of The Black Queen (Polyrhythm - there's like 4/4, 6/8, and 12/8 in there)

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Re: What song do you point to when you describe certain scales?

Any iced earth riff has at least an 80% chance of being in the phrygian mode.

I learned how to riff on the aeolian mode because of In flames.
 
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People always seem to have to make things so complicated for themselves.

I learnt the One Note Samba, and then learnt that note in every key. That allowed me to be able to play any music of any style in any key. All this talk of using more than one note just leads to confusion and uneccesary complications.
 
Re: What song do you point to when you describe certain scales?

crusty philtrum said:
People always seem to have to make things so complicated for themselves.

I learnt the One Note Samba, and then learnt that note in every key. That allowed me to be able to play any music of any style in any key. All this talk of using more than one note just leads to confusion and uneccesary complications.
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that's racist.
 
Re: What song do you point to when you describe certain scales?

What ever it is ..
 
Re: What song do you point to when you describe certain scales?

Misirlou is simply going up and down a version of the Hijaz Kar maqam. Same exact intervals, but Hijaz Kar is in C, while Misirlou is in E. This maqam in E doesn't have its own official name, like G (Shadd Araban), D (Shahnaz), and A (Suzidil) do.
 
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