What's Your Favourite Scale or Mode?

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Just for Dan...

I pick Dorian Mode, the saddest of all keys.

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Friday, 30 September 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

I like scales that have a minor third and sixth but a major seventh.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 30 September 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)

In a few days or weeks, I suppose we'll find out what John Justen's favorite scale is.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 30 September 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

My timing is impeccable. I'll figure it out, and get back to you all in a couple of months.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 30 September 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

I don't know scale & mode names. I like the one that goes c/d/d#/f/g/a/a# so much I have to stop myself using it all the time. Other good ones are c/d/d#/f/g/g#/a# and d/d#/f#/g/a/a#/c (this one is good because you can play noodly lead lines w/a sort of reedlike tone over alternating c min/d maj chords, and it kind of conjures up images of the pyramids, oases etc.)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 1 October 2005 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

The first one you mention is dorian, second one is aeolian (just the minor scale), third one is not one of the modes, but is something you can use over a dominant chord drone in a minor key (i.e. play that particular series of notes you've got up there over a D major chord in the key of G minor).

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 1 October 2005 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Pashmina's third one is a Harmonic Phrygian scale (a.k.a. the YNGWIE scale).

I couldn't pick a single scale; their use depends entirely on the context of the composition. Right now I'm feeling majorly Lydian. (And minorly Dorian, obv.)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 1 October 2005 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

I am all about natural minor.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Saturday, 1 October 2005 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

i seem to play a lot of pentatonic scales w/ chromatic country licks thrown in

― 6335, Sunday, 2 October 2005 02:18 (nineteen years ago)

Locrian baby!

― Pablo (Pablo), Sunday, 2 October 2005 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

dan perry, you make me feel like a natural minor.

― faith popcorn (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 2 October 2005 05:58 (nineteen years ago)

The Dorian mode is pretty useful. Lot's of funk licks are Dorian, and if you see a minor chord in jazz, you can usually get away with using the Dorian scale. Or so I understand.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 3 October 2005 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

And of course there is "Impressions."

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 3 October 2005 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Please forgive my use of the word "licks" two posts up. This is the first and hopefully only time I have ever used this word.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 3 October 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

As far as oriental exoticism goes, one I found good for that sort of thing was A, Bb, C#, D, E, F, G (or Gb).

― acb (acb), Friday, 7 October 2005 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

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I don't know jack about stuff, but this rules.

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

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