Your favourite scale for soloing!
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Re: Your favourite scale for soloing!
I just do modes by ear most of the time.
I just do modes by ear most of the time.
Frantic_Rock
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Re: Your favourite scale for soloing!
Dorian, Aeolian mode and harmonic minor when its hard rock.
Phrygian in certain situations.
For jazz i use a lot of melodic minor modes. Superlocrian, Lydian flat 7, and melodic minor itself. Also phrygian dominant for those dominant chords.
I love the pentatonic scale though - mixing up major and minor.
Its all about the phrasing though!
Dorian, Aeolian mode and harmonic minor when its hard rock.
Phrygian in certain situations.
For jazz i use a lot of melodic minor modes. Superlocrian, Lydian flat 7, and melodic minor itself. Also phrygian dominant for those dominant chords.
I love the pentatonic scale though - mixing up major and minor.
Its all about the phrasing though!
Vasshu the humanoid typhoon
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Re: Your favourite scale for soloing!
Fitthemusicdian is my all time fave.
Fitthemusicdian is my all time fave.
drew_half_empty
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Re: Your favourite scale for soloing!
i just go by ear
then again my solos are more like fills
i just go by ear
then again my solos are more like fills
texasguitarslinger
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Re: Your favourite scale for soloing!
A minor pentatonic :smoker:
A minor pentatonic :smoker:
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seafoamer
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Re: Your favourite scale for soloing!
I'll say The Chromatic Scale. Kinda covers them all.
I'll say The Chromatic Scale. Kinda covers them all.
Brett Valentine
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Re: Your favourite scale for soloing!
I basically ran the major scale/modes, pentatonic scales, Melodic Minor modes, diminished/augmented, and a touch of harmonic minor.
These days, less and less scales, and getting more into "whatever my fingers find." But I still tend to fall into Super Lociran on the V chord (think Alt7). I can sort of reach anything from there.
Brett
I basically ran the major scale/modes, pentatonic scales, Melodic Minor modes, diminished/augmented, and a touch of harmonic minor.
These days, less and less scales, and getting more into "whatever my fingers find." But I still tend to fall into Super Lociran on the V chord (think Alt7). I can sort of reach anything from there.
Brett
Re: Your favourite scale for soloing!
Here's what I think your doing Zerb, although I'm no expert by any stretch of the imagination. If your playing a typicical E Aeolian (or just E Pentatonic Minor) but the song is in D major you're substituting E Aeolian for E Dorian. (both minor modes) If your subbing an E Aeolian over a song in D Minor, you're subbing that E Aeolian for E Locrian. (Dimisinshed, could go either way but your minor sub would usually fit) If you're just jamming a D power cord then playing E minor over it there's no third so it could be either. At least I THINK this is what you're doing hehe.
I know my modes, scales, patterns, keys,., but usually I really don't think about them when I play a solo. I try to phrase what sounds right for the song then think about it after the fact. I do construct my leads though, so that I'm not playing the same solo, or scales, or riffs, etc. over and over. But I don't have a favorite per say. My favorite is what works for the song.
Zerberus said:Em, but in the key of D. Not sure which mode that is, sorry..
Here's what I think your doing Zerb, although I'm no expert by any stretch of the imagination. If your playing a typicical E Aeolian (or just E Pentatonic Minor) but the song is in D major you're substituting E Aeolian for E Dorian. (both minor modes) If your subbing an E Aeolian over a song in D Minor, you're subbing that E Aeolian for E Locrian. (Dimisinshed, could go either way but your minor sub would usually fit) If you're just jamming a D power cord then playing E minor over it there's no third so it could be either. At least I THINK this is what you're doing hehe.
I know my modes, scales, patterns, keys,., but usually I really don't think about them when I play a solo. I try to phrase what sounds right for the song then think about it after the fact. I do construct my leads though, so that I'm not playing the same solo, or scales, or riffs, etc. over and over. But I don't have a favorite per say. My favorite is what works for the song.
Im_in_Disguise
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I really like blues scales. They're the ones that are like minor pentatonics, only you add an extra passing note. Like in Em pentatonic, you add a Bb. Really cool sounding, and I guess it's a favorite box of John Lee Hooker.
I really like blues scales. They're the ones that are like minor pentatonics, only you add an extra passing note. Like in Em pentatonic, you add a Bb. Really cool sounding, and I guess it's a favorite box of John Lee Hooker.
strat_master
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Re: Your favourite scale for soloing!
Don't really know i just use the dorian alot.
Don't really know i just use the dorian alot.
