Example: “Possibly Maybe” by Björk (from the line “As much as I definitely enjoy solitude…”) Lydian dominant modeĪlso known as the overtone scale or acoustic scale, because it is close to the first seven pitches in the natural overtone series. Example: “ Tomorrow Never Knows” by the Beatles. Examples: “Mary Had A Little Lamb,” “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.” Mixolydian modeīluesy, rock can also be exotic/modal. Happy can be majestic or sentimental when slow. These scales have a major third (the note four that is four semitones above the root), which makes them feel happy or bright. You can play all of these scales and more using the aQWERTYon. Here’s a handy guide to the commonly used scales in Western pop, rock, jazz, blues and so on. So maybe you want to write a song or an instrumental in a particular mood or style, and you’re feeling overwhelmed by all the scales.

A model for hexatonic scales in 96-EDO Archived at the Wayback Machine, also a post about making chords from scales, and all of these scales in one giant flowchart.

Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns.

^ Nicolas Slonimsky (22 December 2000).

'Short Scales', Scored Changes: Tutorials. Blues Piano: Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Series, p.8. The Essentials: Chord Charts, Scales and Lead Patterns for Guitar, p.8. All Blues Scale for Jazz Guitar: Solos, Grooves & Patterns, p.6. 'Blue Note', The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Second Edition, London (2002)

'The ten piano sonatas of Almeida Prado: the development of his compositional style'. ^ Advanced: 'Secrets of the symmetrical augmented scale'.Advanced: ' Secrets of the symmetrical augmented scale', Guitar Player 41.7 (July 2007): p108(2). 'Guitar 101: Learning Harmony Through Six-Note Hexatonic Scales, Part 4'. ^ a b McCabe, Larry (January 21, 2011).They can be easily described by the addition of two triads a tone apart, e.g., Am and G in ' Shady Grove', or omitting the fourth or sixth from the seven-note diatonic scale. Irish and Scottish and many other folk traditions use six-note scales.

Similarly, the minor hexatonic scale is made from a minor scale by removing the sixth note, e.g., C D E ♭ F G B ♭ C. It can also be made from superimposing mutually exclusive triads, e.g., C E G and D F A.

The major hexatonic scale is made from a major scale and removing the seventh note, e.g., C D E F G A C.

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