Music scales

[quomanuk]

Been looking about for music scales

Hold you back uses the E minor Harmonic scale for the ricks intro part.   

3 scales

 Natural Minor

Harmonic minor

Melodic Minor 

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This is what I have discovered

lets look at A minor natural cousin of the C major scale( ie take the 6th note of C major scale ie C D E F G (A) B) Start on A note then we get the A minor scale

Natural Minor

A B C D E F G

Harmonic minor SHARPEN THE 7TH NOTE of the natural scale  (  G IN THIS CASE) We then get

Harmonic minor

A B C D E F (G#)

Melodic Minor sharpen the 6th and 7th of  natural scale 6th( F) 7th ( G)

A B C D E (F#) (G#)

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[quomanuk]

To change a Natural Minor to a Major scale in any key

lets take A minor scale

A B C D E F G

to change to A Major scale
Sharpen the 3rd, 6th and 7th notes of A Minor scale as follows

A  B (C#)  E   D   (F#) (G#)
1  2    3    4   5    6      7

Or the Major scale to the Natural Minor
hence flating the 3rd,6th and 7th of the major scale

Just tryng to post any new stuff that I find

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[quomanuk]

Ok this can done on one string , great way to thump the scale in your head.

E major 
E minor 

Note the that there 4 common notes that both share ( E, F#, A and B)

Start with  

E minor to get the harmonic scale we sharping the 6th(*) 
E minor we sharping the 6 and 7 the denoted with ( * and **)


An example of E minor harmonic scale ( Hold your back)

Hear is the trick apply that to all open strings ( B,G,D,A) 

Blues scale add a note between the 4th and 5th of the scale
Be bop add a note between the 6th and 7th of the scale 



Bottom line what ever the open string is the positions remain the same. 

Shame that i never though of the this before. 
Good luck and from this you be able to tranpose this to any key.

A hint. 

Let imagine we play a capo at the 1st fret, the the pitch would be raised up a 1/2 tone

hence open is now F. The capo acts a the Open string , then try that tab and should fin the notes for the Key of F and so on.
I wish i thought of this before as helps to find scales with capo on.

Try it with a a chromatic tuner, then you can make up scale like 

6th= E
5th= 7th=E
4th= 2nd= E
3rd=9th=E
2nd=5th=E

from that build on scales.

Then with a capo shift these up one fret and so on.

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