Learn how to play the enigmatic scale on guitar. Notation, tab and fretboard diagram is provided. We'll also look at how the scale came to be invented.
Scales For Lead Guitar
Japanese Scales
This page contains information on several Japanese scales, and includes guitar tab and fretboard diagrams.
There are several Western interpretations of Japanese scales. They are all pentatonic (i.e. made up of five notes). Each of them produces a slightly different sound, but all are instantly recognisable as being Japanese in origin.
Byzantine Scale For Guitar – Scale Patterns & Tab. Learn this amazing exotic-sounding scale today!
The Byzantine scale is the same as the Gypsy scale and the double harmonic scale. It is also related to the Phrygian dominant scale. A quick look at Wikipedia tells me that the Byzantine Empire was ‘was the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its …
Double Harmonic Scale
The double harmonic scale goes by several other names, including the Arabic scale, Gypsy scale and Byzantine scale. It has the unusual feature of two augmented second intervals; these, together with the half-step gap between its first and second notes, give the scale an exotic, Eastern sound. The scale spelling is: 1, b2, 3, 4, …
Freygish Scale
The Freygish Scale, also known as the Jewish Scale, is a common scale in Middle Eastern music, and produces an instantly recognisable exotic sound. It is also known as the Phrygian dominant scale and the Spanish Gypsy scale. It is widely used in Arabic music, and in Spanish music – it is a scale used …
Phrygian Dominant Guitar Scale Tab, Diagrams & Information
This page contains Phrygian dominant guitar diagrams & TAB.
The Phrygian dominant scale produces a unique 'Eastern' sound. It is formed either by raising the third note of a Phrygian modal scale, or by playing the fifth mode of a harmonic minor scale.
Dorian Scale Guitar
On this page you'll find Dorian scale guitar tab, fretboard diagrams and information. We'll show you how to play a Dorian scale on guitar, and what a Dorian scale actually is.
- You can find many more interesting scales here: Guitar Scales Main Page.
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Harmonic Minor Scale Guitar
The harmonic minor scale is one of several minor guitar scales that can be used in improvisation. The harmonic minor scale is so named because, particularly in baroque and classical times, it was this scale, rather than (for example) a natural minor or melodic minor scale, which would have been used to harmonise music in a minor key.
Jazz Minor Scale
The jazz minor scale is one of several minor-type scales available to use in improvisation. Depending on which way you want to approach it, it is either the ascending form of the melodic minor scale, or simply a major scale with the third degree flattened.
Whole Tone Scale Guitar
The whole tone scale produces a tonally ambiguous sound that when played alone can create an 'eerie' or 'ominous' mood. Its use was once frowned upon by strict classical composers, but the scale's distinctive sound can now be heard fairly regularly in classical, film and jazz music.