Whats your Favorite scale

[BlackViking666]

whats your favorite scale used and why?

Mines is the harmonic minor and the penta
I like to use the harmonic minor because of how melodic it sounds and I like the penta because of its fluidity.

 

[TylerTheNuke]

The whole tone scale, because it has no root and you can just wander around. Penta is the most overrated scale ever...

 

[Neurotic]

harmonic minor, harmonic major, melodic minor and natural minor (i like to write sad classical music so...).
double harmonic is nice aswell for that eastern feel.
the diminished scales are really nice too for the evil stuff eheh

 

[Zygote]

i try to stay away from scales i feel it takes away originality

 

[Neurotic]

i try to stay away from scales i feel it takes away originality

well its the way you play the scales that make you original or not because all have been used a million times before.

 

[Zygote]

Yea but i like the process of just thinking something totatally original in my head up, not using anybody elses.

 

[thecomebackkid]

harmonic minor

favorite key is A minor.

yay for no sharps or flats.

 

[Syrandus]

^^^haha,

Natural Minor, nice and simple... and the occasional Natural Major..

Fav Key? F# Minor or C# Major

 

[TylerTheNuke]

I agree. I like to write based on the chromatic, in other words, whatever the hell I want But my favorite to listen to is the whole tone.

 

[TylerTheNuke]

Oh yeah, and another really cool pattern is the whole step-half step pattern. try playing that and see what I mean.

 

[hibernal_dream]

i try to stay away from scales i feel it takes away originality

Remind me never to listen to your stuff.

At the moment, I like using diminished or a combination of major and melodic minor.

 

[serenesorrow]

F# Minor and diminished.

 

[Thidrek]

if you don't write your music in a special ladder but try to do it just "from the heart" you will end up in a ladder anyway because some notes just sound harmonic with other ones - provided that your hearing is good and you are not used to tvelve-tone-music

 

[Neurotic]

Yea but i like the process of just thinking something totatally original in my head up, not using anybody elses.

but even if you dont know you are always using scales, everything relates to some scale.be it diatonic or chromatic. so your argument is kinda stupid.

 

[Horus]

I have a fetish for the Phrygian scales. I can't help it. I love it. No matter what you do with it, it works for you.

 

[Vital Remains]

Im going to have to say the chinese scale. it has some good stretches in it but it sounds absolutely beutifle if played right. second would be dorian. harmonic minor is ok i just get tired of it. diminished is pretty cool

 

[Niklas]

does anywhere know a site with all the bass scales on? im somewhat ignorant when it comes to scales

 

[dreamcatcher]

byzantine minor

 

[Vital Remains]

Byzantine? ive heard of that.........

 

[dreamcatcher]

Byzantine? ive heard of that.........

I didn't learn the name til later. I was given this assignment to numerically build a scale that fit a certain little powerchord progression by taking the chord tones and then subjectively filling in the gaps with whatever I wanted, and then writing little fills, solos, or whatever.

At any rate, I "reinvented" byzantine minor.

1, b2, 3, 4, 5, b6, 7

The next logical step would be harmonizing and building other chords, but we never did that. I really should, one of these days. But really, I use it to spice up regular minors or anything with a lot of tonal space or ambiguity and to do something true to the scale might ruin it for me.