Music Theory Series Part 4- Introduction To Scales 1, by Dogukan Ozturk |
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Music Theory Series Part 4- Introduction To Scales 1, by Dogukan Ozturk |
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Mar 11 2011, 11:59 PM |
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Hello.Welcome to my Music Theory Series.In todays lesson we will take a look at the scales.Let’s begin.
Definition: A scale is a sequence of musical notes in ascending and descending order that provides material for or is used to conveniently represent part or all of a musical work including melody and/or harmony. It is important to remember a scale pattern on the guitar, if you know the pattern of a particular scale, you can move that pattern anywhere else on the fret board and be playing in a different key. By this, I mean if you are playing a major scale, beginning on the low E string at the fifth fret, which is an A note and then you played the same pattern of notes, but you started on the 3rd fret of the low E string, you will be playing a G major scale. Now let’s take a look scale types. -Major Scale -Minor Scale -Melodic Minor Scale -Harmonic Minor Scale -Pentatonic Scale -Blues Scale -Chromatic Scale -Whole Tone Scale Of course there are many more types of scales.But these are the most common scales. -I’ve covered the major/minor and pentatonic scales in my previous lessons.You can find them in those links: https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_fo...showtopic=37817 (for Major and Minor Scales) https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_fo...showtopic=37733 (for Pentatonic Scale) Now let’s continue with the Blues Scale: (#=sharp,b=flat) A Blues scale consists of six notes.(minor pentatonic scale plus #4th,b5th degree) A major feature of the blues scale is the use of blue notes.So what are those blue notes?Let’s see: A blue note is a note sung or played at a slightly lower pitch than that of the major scale for expressive purposes.(b3,#4/b5 and b7 degrees of a scale.)) Though the blues scale has an minor tonality, it is commonly 'forced' over major-key chord changes. Now that we know how to construct a blues scale,let’s construct one. Let’s say we want to construct a A Blues Scale.As i mentioned before we need a pentatonic scale plus #4th,b5th degree to construct a Blues scale.So: A minor pentatonic scale: A C D E G e |--5--------8-- Now we need a diminished 5th/augmented 4th note The fifth degree of A minor scale is a E note.Then the diminished 5th/augmented 4th is a Eb/D# note.If we add this note to our A minor Pentatonic Scale we get the A Blues Scale. A C D D#/Eb E G e |--5--------8-- A Blues Scale All Patterns: ![]() The constructing way is same for every scale.To sum up here are the steps to construct a Blues Scale: 1-Find the minor pentatonic scale of the given scale. 2-Find the Diminished 5th/Augmented 4th degree of the given scale. 3-Add the Diminished 5th/Augmented 4th note to the minor pentatonic scale you have found before. Thats it.You have a Blues Scale now ![]() Now that we have covered Major Scale,Minor Scale,Pentatonic Scale and Blues Scale.We will continue covering other scales in next lesson.See you there.Keep rocking ![]() This post has been edited by quadrium: Mar 12 2011, 03:47 PM -------------------- ![]() -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPOTIFY PAGE YOUTUBE CHANNEL |
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