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GuitarBizarre · 04-08-2012, 02:38 PM

Burning down is right about one thing though - The scale you're playing isn't a pentatonic after the first octave. that 345 pattern in there is a different scale.

Think about it, a pentatonic scale is PENT-atonic. Pent meaning five, like pentagon.

If you look at the second octave of your scale, there are six notes. Thats not right for a pentatonic. You're adding in that Eb for some reason, which is what would happen in a blues pentatonic, not a traditional pentatonic.

Burning Down · 04-08-2012, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre

Burning down is right about one thing though - The scale you're playing isn't a pentatonic after the first octave. that 345 pattern in there is a different scale.

Think about it, a pentatonic scale is PENT-atonic. Pent meaning five, like pentagon.

If you look at the second octave of your scale, there are six notes. Thats not right for a pentatonic. You're adding in that Eb for some reason, which is what would happen in a blues pentatonic, not a traditional pentatonic.

Yeah I couldn't really put my finger on it... it sounded very bluesy at the end. I even tried it on the piano in all five positions (or inversions as they are called on piano), same result.

GuitarBizarre · 04-08-2012, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Burning Down

Yeah I couldn't really put my finger on it... it sounded very bluesy at the end. I even tried it on the piano in all five positions (or inversions as they are called on piano), same result.

Its because the blues relies on fluid intervals, quartertones etc. So to approximate that on instruments that can't bend, you get the "blue notes" where you make a run fluid by adding in a semitone that isn't in the original scale.