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What's your favourite scale that you play to?

Post by rdubz » Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:49 pm

This ones more for the musician, what's your favourite scale?

Mines natural minor (in C), played it for years, cant get my fingers away from it, proper nice and deep, can get real trancey with it if thats your thang

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Re: What's your favourite scale that you play to?

Post by Basic A » Wed Feb 10, 2010 9:41 pm

Favortie? A minor, then probably the F flavors, n Ds pleasant too... C Chords are lifeless in my mind, I never get much out of em...
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Re: What's your favourite scale that you play to?

Post by FSTZ » Wed Feb 10, 2010 9:49 pm

Basic A wrote:A minor

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Re: What's your favourite scale that you play to?

Post by DZA » Wed Feb 10, 2010 9:50 pm

Dont know fuck all about scales :lol: :oops:
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Re: What's your favourite scale that you play to?

Post by wirez » Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:03 pm

Lately I've been making the skeletons of tracks in minor pentatonic scales and then adding jazzy/funky melodic or harmonic minor bits in solo areas or sometimes even the hooks.

I like Bb Minor natural scale but my fingers just don't want to play it so as much as I like it I rarely use it.
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Re: What's your favourite scale that you play to?

Post by abZ » Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:24 pm

I really need to quit doing this but I am usually in modes of the key of C. In other words all the white keys but not starting out with C major. I like starting with E. Popular metal mode phrygian. I love that half step between the first chord and the second getmi.

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Re: What's your favourite scale that you play to?

Post by grooki » Thu Feb 11, 2010 12:04 am

I generally work with F minor... I conquered the scarey black keys!

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Post by BLAHBLAHJAH » Thu Feb 11, 2010 12:25 am

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Re: What's your favourite scale that you play to?

Post by bugsky » Thu Feb 11, 2010 12:26 am

I cant seem to stay away from G Maj and E Minor
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Re: What's your favourite scale that you play to?

Post by moki » Thu Feb 11, 2010 12:47 am

F hungarian minor all de way. evil transilvania shit..

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Re: What's your favourite scale that you play to?

Post by narcissus » Thu Feb 11, 2010 12:56 am

sure, there are minor differences in feel due to different tuning methods... but when it comes to playing, they're all about the same. i like Ab recently, and Eb always gives a nice deep sound to me.. but i realize that's mostly just in my head. it's probably more due to some of my favorite songs of all time being in Eb that i like it, not any difference in sound. also Eb's very good for my voice range, so if i'm singing something that spends a lot of time around the fifth and third, i usually shoot for Eb, F# is nice too.. i like to play F on guitar, also G, C, F#, Ab, B, hell all of 'em :lol: not D tho, unless I want a deep and dramatic transition to the iv chord, then D's good for that.. for piano, same... also Bb i like a lot, Db can be nice.

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Post by nowaysj » Thu Feb 11, 2010 4:01 am

DZA wrote:Dont know fuck all about scales :lol: :oops:
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Re: What's your favourite scale that you play to?

Post by JFK » Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:11 am

G minor is king.

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Re: What's your favourite scale that you play to?

Post by phrex » Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:40 am

it's fucking strange coz in england you have a different scale than in the rest of europe.... will ahve to check it out :x
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Re: What's your favourite scale that you play to?

Post by fiziks » Thu Feb 11, 2010 6:41 pm

I used to be a minor like a mofo. Lately, I've been loving d and f minor. Especially f. I just go right to it.
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Re: What's your favourite scale that you play to?

Post by yamaz » Thu Feb 11, 2010 7:02 pm

All black keys, which is pentatonic scale of both a major and minor depending on your root note.
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Re: What's your favourite scale that you play to?

Post by legend4ry » Thu Feb 11, 2010 7:04 pm

JFK wrote:G minor is king.
Also F#
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Re: What's your favourite scale that you play to?

Post by nitz » Thu Feb 11, 2010 8:20 pm

F# is my new key, but i use to play alot in c minor befor. I loved the sound of them keys, maybe on of the best scales...
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Re: What's your favourite scale that you play to?

Post by mks » Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:37 pm

vulvavibration wrote:it's fucking strange coz in england you have a different scale than in the rest of europe.... will ahve to check it out :x
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Re: What's your favourite scale that you play to?

Post by phrex » Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:46 pm

mks wrote:
vulvavibration wrote:it's fucking strange coz in england you have a different scale than in the rest of europe.... will ahve to check it out :x
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