alternative scale suggestion

[ZMech]

Well one of my mates was playing around with some egyptian scale he'd got off the internet, which was pretty cool. So I was wondering if anyone had suggestions of wierd alternative scales that would be fun to learn. Any links would be appreciated

[lettsguitars]

i like the 3rd/6th progression if that's right. not sure what it's called like. but if you're in G, it would be G A# C# E G. i find it fits in at the end of a fill quite nicely. got that from the jaco lessons on youtube.

[Bilbo]

[quote name='lettsguitars' post='1143324' date='Feb 27 2011, 02:06 PM']i like the 3rd/6th progression if that's right. not sure what it's called like. but if you're in G, it would be G A# C# E G. i find it fits in at the end of a fill quite nicely. got that from the jaco lessons on youtube.[/quote]

That's a diminished arpeggio (a series of minor thirds).

[lettsguitars]

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1143350' date='Feb 27 2011, 02:27 PM']That's a diminished arpeggio (a series of minor thirds).[/quote]
i knew that really honest!

Edited February 27, 2011 by lettsguitars

[SteveK]

I bought the [url="http://www.guitargrimoire.com/gt03.htm"]guitar version of this[/url] many years ago (don't think there was a bass version then).
If the bass version is anything like the guitar version, then, it's Probably got every scale/mode known to man.

[purpleblob]

Many many many years ago I wrote out all the scales and modes I could find on rolodex cards (also turned them into a Windows Pocket PC app. but that's another story). Anyway nowadays there's loads of sites where you can check out all sorts of scales, have a look at [url="http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/guitar_scales.php"]http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/guitar_scales.php[/url] where you'll find a whole bunch of exotics.

For some reason the one that I remember most (in name alone probably) from when I was writing all this stuff out, was the Prometheus Neopoliton, however I prefer the Diminished scale (although it's probably not that exotic).

[lowdown]

I got hold of this book years ago, put together by Jimmy Haslip.

Plenty of world music scales in this.

[url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jimmy-Haslips-Melodic-Bass-Library/dp/0757977502"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jimmy-Haslips-Melo...y/dp/0757977502[/url]



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