Improvising with Exotic Scales - Part 1
(30 Oct 03)
Pentatonics
There's a huge amount of things you can do with pentatonic scales to get whatever sound you want… here's a suspended 4th mixolydian pentatonic, basically a mixolydian scale without a 3rd and a 6th it is a really versatile scale and because of its lacking of major/minor character it can be used successfully with minor or dominant chord progressions, you can also use it tactfully with major progressions to get a blues-beboppish-kinda-tone. It sounds very Chinese (to me anyways) and I heard someone dub it once "The Yin Yu Scale" so here it is the "Yin Yu Scale":
Here's the PowerTab file of the above.
Maybe that was a little bit too light for you. Right, so you want to really get into those oriental and Arabic sounds huh? Ok well try this one, the Korean Scale which is just a harmonic minor without the 3rd and the 6th again (so basically take the scale you just played and raise the 7th) Here it is.
Here's the PowerTab file of the above.
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