Are there any "exotic" scales that you could tell me of?

[I Banghard]

I'm getting bored of all of the common scales on my bass, could someone tell me of some interesting ones?

[Carrollizer]

learn some Egyptian ones, they're pretty funky

[I Banghard]

That's pretty awesome, thanks.

[Stoned Crow]

Where can you exotic scales for guitar?

[I Banghard]

Carrollizer, Is it this scale? http://www.basstabs.net/basics/scales.asp?r=2&q=35&x=20&y=0&v=8&d=0

[Carrollizer]

basically, just fool around with the basics and you can find some gnarly king tut shit haha, just hard to find actual songs with that scale, but its fun to play

[T.K. Baha]

The chromatic scale.

[dij314]

http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/guitar_scales.php

Your welcome.

[im taller than you]

I've been working on this a lot lately!

Try the minor pentatonic and use the 3rd position as your root for egyptian. Harmonic minor and its 5th degree sound really Arabian. Hirajoshi is a minor scale with only the 1st 2nd 3rd 5th and 6th, and sounds really eastern. But you can even sound "exotic" with a minor scale if you know what your doing, its all about bending and phrasing.

Try playing a A minor chord and find a REALLY bad note like D#. D# over Am sounds horrible. But if you try slowly bending up to E it will sound pretty exotic.

[Bobweirsucks]

as said before, harmonic minor starting on the 5th degree (otherwise known as freigish/phrygian dominant) then there is ukranian dorian which is dorian with a #4, there are really an endless amount of scale you can find, just google.

btw dij314 the website was so retarded, helpful maybe, but they should have grouped same scales with different names together.

[sevenTwo]

I've always felt that the Japanese scale always has a nice exotic feel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VPZmCzmDjs

[Caramello Koala]

some other 'exotic' scales in C maj are:
Arabian: C D Eb F Gb G# A B C
Gypsy: A B C D# E F G# A
Romanian: D E F G# A B C D
Indian: E F B G C E
Persian: E F G# A Bb C D# E
Byzantine: E F G# A B C D# E
Oriental: G A Bb C Db E F G
Jewish: E F G# A B C D E
Japanese: G A B D Eb G
From another thread.

[I Banghard]

Thank you

[xtol]

Maybe check out Thesaurus Of Scales And Melodic Patterns by Slonimsky. This book is super dense and I don't understand most of it. But it's really cool.

A major scale has 7 notes and moves by whole and half steps. In his book, Slonimsky builds 2,3,4,5,... note scales splitting multiple octaves with different intervals.

The concepts may very well take a lifetime to really understand, but it's cool too just to get some new sounds in your ears and some new patterns under your fingers.

Also, if you're looking into some new sounds. Maybe check out Indiana ragas. It's more a melodic and metric framework, but there are really cool ideas there.

Do you play fretless? Cause then, you could really take advantage of the ragas.

[944]

Learn theory, so you don't need us to tell you this.

Scales are just groups of notes someone decided sounded good together. Just dick around till you find something you like;)

[Kwinnie Bogan]

From another thread.

Which gypsies?

[sevenTwo]

Maybe check out Thesaurus Of Scales And Melodic Patterns by Slonimsky. This book is super dense and I don't understand most of it. But it's really cool.

A major scale has 7 notes and moves by whole and half steps. In his book, Slonimsky builds 2,3,4,5,... note scales splitting multiple octaves with different intervals.

The concepts may very well take a lifetime to really understand, but it's cool too just to get some new sounds in your ears and some new patterns under your fingers.

Also, if you're looking into some new sounds. Maybe check out Indiana ragas. It's more a melodic and metric framework, but there are really cool ideas there.

Do you play fretless? Cause then, you could really take advantage of the ragas.

lol someone who asks for new exotic scales isn't going to have much use for that book.

[944]

Maybe check out Thesaurus Of Scales And Melodic Patterns by Slonimsky. This book is super dense and I don't understand most of it. But it's really cool.

A major scale has 7 notes and moves by whole and half steps. In his book, Slonimsky builds 2,3,4,5,... note scales splitting multiple octaves with different intervals.

The concepts may very well take a lifetime to really understand, but it's cool too just to get some new sounds in your ears and some new patterns under your fingers.

Also, if you're looking into some new sounds. Maybe check out Indiana ragas. It's more a melodic and metric framework, but there are really cool ideas there.

Do you play fretless? Cause then, you could really take advantage of the ragas.

Theory is just math, it doesn't take as long to learn as one might think.

.....But be warned, ignorance is bliss

[Retard Synrdome]

Just make your own.

[Caramello Koala]

Which gypsies?
:hrmph:

[Minotaur]

http://freakguitar.com/scales.html

bam.

[Famous Monster]

I've been working on this a lot lately!

Try the minor pentatonic and use the 3rd position as your root for egyptian. Harmonic minor and its 5th degree sound really Arabian. Hirajoshi is a minor scale with only the 1st 2nd 3rd 5th and 6th, and sounds really eastern. But you can even sound "exotic" with a minor scale if you know what your doing, its all about bending and phrasing.

Try playing a A minor chord and find a REALLY bad note like D#. D# over Am sounds horrible. But if you try slowly bending up to E it will sound pretty exotic.

The reason it sounds exotic or weird or non-harmonic is because that D# is an augmented fourth above the root of the A minor making it a tritone, or traditionally called Diabulus in Musica, since it is a difficult interval to play. The bending of it up to an E would make it a perfect fifth, which occurs naturally in the a minor triad/chord, however a fifth can be omitted out of a chord since the root and third are the most important notes in the triad that give it the quality of minor or major.

[ZappaFan]

As a bassist myself, Ive found that the concept of scales can almost hold you back. If you're looking for interesting scales, experiment and 'make up' some of your own. In the range of a root to its octave, there are only so many combos of notes you can do.

[AsylumSeaker]

Just make some up. Even it's discordant and fucked up as hell, if there's a pattern it will shine through.
You can even make the pattern extend outside of the octave if you want to get really munted.
Then you can break out of the pattern on unexpected notes, or invert the pattern for a moment and play only the notes you weren't playing before.
Haters gunna hate but.

[Flex Rigid]

You can get away with most combinations of notes if they are phrased well.

[LegalizeSexyAlbumcovers]

http://jguitar.com/scaledictionary.jsp

This is a really helpful site.