What's up future rock-stars!!!
It's time to take a little break from chords and start discussing something a bit different, scales. In my opinion every musician in the world should have at least a basic understanding of both chords and scales, as well as how they work together. In this series of articles I will share with you the basic knowledge that I have acquired these past few years. Do note that I am by far an expert, I’m just a guitar enthusiast sharing his thoughts on these matters. However this should be very useful to the beginners out there.
In this introduction I am going to start by answering the most fundamental question. Namely, what is a musical scale? Well, to put it in the simplest way possible, a scale is nothing more than a sequence of notes, usually belonging to a key. The most basic scale, one that we have already mentioned in one of the first lessons, is the C major scale: Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Si Do or C D E F G A B C.
The beautiful thing about scales is the diversity. There are a bunch of different scales, each with its own characteristics and each with its own use and place in music, just like chords. In fact chords and scales have a very tight relation to each other, but we will discuss that later.
Scales come in many different types. For instance they can be divided by the number of notes they contain. The chromatic scale contains all 12 notes, whereas most of the scales used in western music contain 7 notes, those are diatonic scales. The most commonly used scales in Rock and Blues music contain only 5 notes, they are called pentatonic scales. Sometimes a sixth note, called the blue note, is added and then you get what is known as the Blues scale. We will discuss a bunch of these scales in the upcoming articles, starting with the easiest and probably the most used scale in modern music, the Minor Pentatonic scale.
I hope this article warmed you up to the magic of scales.
If you have any questions, e-mail them to: thenoobguitarist@gmail.com.
And as always, don't forget to listen and have fun!!!
It's time to take a little break from chords and start discussing something a bit different, scales. In my opinion every musician in the world should have at least a basic understanding of both chords and scales, as well as how they work together. In this series of articles I will share with you the basic knowledge that I have acquired these past few years. Do note that I am by far an expert, I’m just a guitar enthusiast sharing his thoughts on these matters. However this should be very useful to the beginners out there.
In this introduction I am going to start by answering the most fundamental question. Namely, what is a musical scale? Well, to put it in the simplest way possible, a scale is nothing more than a sequence of notes, usually belonging to a key. The most basic scale, one that we have already mentioned in one of the first lessons, is the C major scale: Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Si Do or C D E F G A B C.
The beautiful thing about scales is the diversity. There are a bunch of different scales, each with its own characteristics and each with its own use and place in music, just like chords. In fact chords and scales have a very tight relation to each other, but we will discuss that later.
Scales come in many different types. For instance they can be divided by the number of notes they contain. The chromatic scale contains all 12 notes, whereas most of the scales used in western music contain 7 notes, those are diatonic scales. The most commonly used scales in Rock and Blues music contain only 5 notes, they are called pentatonic scales. Sometimes a sixth note, called the blue note, is added and then you get what is known as the Blues scale. We will discuss a bunch of these scales in the upcoming articles, starting with the easiest and probably the most used scale in modern music, the Minor Pentatonic scale.
I hope this article warmed you up to the magic of scales.
If you have any questions, e-mail them to: thenoobguitarist@gmail.com.
And as always, don't forget to listen and have fun!!!
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