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Posted By admin On 30.09.19Today I’ll show you the two most important scales in western music. The “Major Scale” and the “Pentatonic Scale”. If they are not in your vocubalary yet, be eager to learn. If you know your scales you can learn how to solo, improvise and much more. We’ll start with The Major Scale. The major scale is the mother of all scales, because all the other scales, modes, intervals, chords and harmony in western music can be derived from it.
If you want to learn anything about music theory you need to know how to play the major scale. And why would you want to learn music theory? Because you’ll be much faster in learning to understand everything about guitar playing. Yes you’ll become a better rock, blues, metal, country, jazz guitar player. If you know music theory you know the short cuts to playing and transcribing guitar solos, chord progressions and improvising.
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It makes the life of a guitar player a lot easier. INTERVALS: The major scale contains 7 notes starting with the root note and the scale is followed by the octave of the root note: 1(root) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8(= 1)(=octave) To form a scale on a single string we use the formula: W-W-H-W-W-W-H W = Whole step.(2 frets) H = Half step.(1 fret) For example: Let’s say we start on a G-note (Low E-string 3rd fret), now go up a whole step to an A(note), then up a whole step to B, up a half step to C, up a whole step to D, a whole step to E, a whole step to F# and finally up a half step to G. So the notes of the G major scale are: G A B C D E F# G The major scale in the video lesson and the tabs below contain the same notes, only it’s a two octave major scale: G A B C D E F# G A B C D E F# G The Pentatonic Scale. The pentatonic scale is so important because it is widely used in Rock, Blues, Metal, Jazz, Fusion, Country and many other styles.
Just about any pop, rock, blues guitar solo you hear on the radio is played using the pentatonic scale. And what is quite nice is that it’s not such a difficult scale to learn. INTERVALS: The pentatonic scale only contains five notes starting with the root note and finishing with the octave of the root note.
These are the notes compared to a major scale: 1 b3 4 5 b7 8(= 1)(=octave) The interval formula is: 1 1/2, W, W, 1 1/2, W Note: 1 1/2 = 3 half steps.(3 frets) W = Whole step.(2 frets) For example: Let’s say we start on a A-note (Low E-string 5th fret), now go up a 1 1/2 step to an C(note), then up a whole step to a D, up a whole step to E, up 1 1/2 step to G and finally up a whole step to A. So the notes of the A pentatonic scale are: A C D E G A The pentatonic scale in the video lesson and the tabs below is a two octave pentatonic scale: A C D E G A C D E G A Now let’s take a closer look at the tabs below. For the major scale I’ve chosen the G major scale. Once you can play the G major scale you can play it in any key, just by moving up the scale a half step up each time.
If you move up the G major scale up a half step you are playing a G# major scale, move up a half step again and you’re playing an A major scale, move up a half step to A#, up a half step to B, up a half step to C and so on: G – G# – A – A# – B – C – C# – D – D# – E – F – F# – G Example see tabs below: Note: Every scale starts and ends on the root note. Every red note indicates a root note. G Major Scale e-2- 3-2- B-3-5-5-3- G-2-4-5-5-4-2- D-2-4- 5- 5-4-2- A-2-3-5-5-3-2- E- 3-5-5- 3- Move up a half step and you have.
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Have you ever done a post on a general learning path for beginners to follow? Thanks for the lessons and for the inspiration.
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Group Doueh: Guitar Music From The Western Sahara SF030 If you think you’ve heard all the great electric guitar styles in the world, think again. This Saharan sand-blizzard of fine-crushed glass will grind your face to a bloody pulp. Group Doueh play raw and unfiltered Saharawi music from the former colonial Spanish outpost of the Western Sahara.
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Doueh (pronounced “Doo-way”) is their leader and a master of the electric guitar. He’s been performing since he was a child playing in many groups before finally creating his own in the 1980’s. Doueh says he’s Influenced by western pop and rock music especially Jimi Hendrix and James Brown.
His sound is distorted, loud and unhinged with an impressive display of virtuosity and style only known in this part of the world. His wife Halima and friend Bashiri are the two vocalists in the group. Saharawi songs are from the sung poetry of the Hassania language. The music is based on the same modal structure as Mauritanian music, however, Doueh’s style is a looser appropriation infused with a western guitar scope, one that relies, in his words, as much on Hendrix as it does traditional Sahrawi music. It also adds a playful pop element that rarely filters through in this region. Doueh has turned down countless offers from Morocco and Europe to release his music but he decided to offer us access to his homemade recordings and photo archive for this amazing debut LP. Pressing Information This is a one-time pressing of 1000 copies, the first Sublime Frequencies vinyl release.
Pressed on 180 gram vinyl and comes in a gatefold full color jacket stocked with great photos of the musicians and liner notes by Hisham Mayet. © 2018 SublimeFrequencies Powered.