Re: [Rosegarden-user] OT: a little scale theory (guitar)

[Steve C. <ste...@li...>]

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From: "Silvan" <dmm...@us...>
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Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 10:36 PM
Subject: [Rosegarden-user] OT: a little scale theory (guitar)


> I got a sneak preview of the acoustic/electric cutaway I'll be seeing
again in
> December, and something about playing with an acoustic guitar plugged in
> inspired me to try some new stuff.  I came up with two interesting
patterns
> that sound like they're probably scales.  I'd like to enlighten myself and
> figure out what I'm actually playing.
>
> The first one is
>
> E  6 3
> B      6 3
> G          5 3
> D              5 3
> A
> E

This is a Bb pentatonic major. Although you're starting on the Bb ( I ) and
ending on the F ( V ).
From 6th fret of the E string to the 3rd fret of the G string is one octave
of that scale. If you also played the 5th, 3rd and 1st strings of the A
string you'd have two octaves of the scale.

>
> E  4 3
> B      5 4
> G          6 5
> D              7 6
> A                  7 6
> E                      8 9
>
> I don't even have a guess what this one might be.  It sounds Middle
> Easternish.


It's kind of weird. Not sure if it has a name. Interesting thing is that you
can get two minor chords a fret apart from this scale. C#m and Cm. ( An Am
shaped bar chord at the 4th and 4rd frets ) Also can get a G# from it. ( E
style bar chord at the 4th fret ) So I guess there are some changes you
could play over with it.
Back and forth between the C#m and the Cm is a fairly unsettling change.