Sorry: Scales

[mgibson]

Sorry as this is probably already on here already. I was just going to say how nice it is that scales effectivley boil down to a series of almost binary like 1's and 2's meaning that all I need to do is learn these major and minor and so on, 'codes' and then you can tell me a scale, I go there on the finger board and play the scale. If you can't make sense of this post you can read better than me.

[essexbasscat]

what happens when you go practicing intervals while modulating around different regions of the fretboard ?

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[Doddy]

If you approach scales as just a series of patterns,you are missing a lot(all?) of the
important information that they contain.

[leftybassman392]

What about the Harmonic minor. Or the Hungarian Major (aka Double Harmonic). Or the...

[ThomBassmonkey]

I just stick to the chromatic, it's a lot harder to get wrong than it is to get right.

Semitone, Semitone, Semitone, Semitone, Semitone, Semitone, Semitone, Semitone, Semitone, Semitone, Semitone, Semitone

is a lot easier to remember than

Tone, Tone, Semitone, Tone, Tone, Tone, Semitone or Tone, Semitone, Tone, Tone, Semitone, Tone, Tone.

If it doesn't fit, just say it's jazz.

[Musicman69]

I stick to the open strings.. its easy that way.

And my other hand is free to do other things.