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Topic: Exotic Scale Reference |
David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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chas smith R.I.P.
From:
Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 20 Aug 2003 3:05 pm |
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| Years ago I bought MetaSynth, that came with a library of scales and there were way over 1000 scales in there. It was mind boggling. At that point, I decided to stop using scales. |
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Jeff A. Smith
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Angola,Ind. U.S.A.
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Posted 20 Aug 2003 3:40 pm
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Interesting, David.
Have you ever seen "The Guitarist Grimoire?" That's the closest thing I've got to what you have here.
I guess I've kind of decided to limit my focus to modal systems based on the major, harmonic minor, and melodic minor scales, with occassional forays out into systems based on a couple of alterations of melodic minor. Along with the diminished scale began on either the half-step or the whole-step, and (very occasionally) the whole-tone scale, that seems to be enough to chew on for awhile.
Working on different ways of applying that stuff, and related pentatonics, blues scales and arpeggios, involves quite a bit.
At a certain point, it's tempting to just stick with what you already know about scales, and classify the rest as chromaticism and -- that handy catch-all phrase -- "passing tones." 
One thing I do think is important, that I've thought about a bit myself, is how to name the different scales and modes. When I was charting this stuff out for myself, I saw how many different names were being used for different scales. I've chosen to name them in a way that helps me to see and remember them in relation to my overall system of matching scales with chords. All those national and ethnic names seem to get in the way for me. |
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Jeff A. Smith
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Angola,Ind. U.S.A.
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Posted 20 Aug 2003 3:44 pm
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| Although the names for the original Greek modes had geographical significance. I still use those... |
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 20 Aug 2003 10:22 pm
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| I've been playing standard guitar long enough that I can hear things and see them in terms of a "home" chord and scale and see the rest as chromatic or passing tones, but I haven't been playing steel long enough to visualize the C6th steel neck that way yet. Especially with all those infernal pedals and levers that ruin the map every time you stomp one. In this case, thinking in terms of scales is helpful to me. |
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Rick Aiello
From:
Berryville, VA USA
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Sherman Willden
From:
Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
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Posted 20 Jan 2006 12:23 pm
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Thank you, Rick. I clicked on the chordhouse site and it was what I was looking for. I needed something to show the intervals along with the note names so I looked at the piano room. It allowed me to select either the note names or the intervals. It goes along well with Michael Perlowin's _Music Theory in the Real World_ and DeWitt Scott's theory. Since I don't have a piano the site shows me what I need to know. Searches on this forum are great for finding things.
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