Your favorite scale

[sonofhendrix13]

Okay, so this thread is pretty much pointless. But do you have one? I'm curious.

Mine: The Spanish Gypsy Scale

 

[Loner]

Diminished.

 

[Melodeath]

Harmonic Minor or Diminished
or Minor

 

[RideForVengance]

Augmented

 

[Indiooo]

Dorian. Not metal \m/, I know.

 

[Kenneth R.]

C# minor

 

[Only Human]

I use major more than I realize, but I don't typically write with a scale in mind. I probably use harmonic minor and major the most often.

 

[FauxPerspicacity]

Phrygian wahoo!

 

[Evelynne]

Whole tone scale, but it depends on when you use it. There is always something as 'the right timing' for this kind of creepy scales.

 

[Hexer]

most stuff I played so far was in minor, but I just recently wrote a solo in hungarian minor and I think it sounds really cool (pretty much the same solo in E minor sounded good, but kinda boring) so maybe I'll use that scale more in the future

 

[TheMonkeysAteMySoul]

dorian superimposed over a blues minor or a minor pentatonic with a sharpened 3rd and 4th alot of the time I'll just use natural minor and pentatonic, you don't always need this freaky sounding shit

 

[Bryant]

Aw man you guys are over my head : ( I am stuck in Aoelian minor (along with pentatonic) when I really ad-lib. I can write in other scales, but I am worried about hitting the notes in the rght place too much and don't get the expression I like on individual notes.
Then again, I play a mean harmonic minor and pentatonic. I don't make it sound boring. I hope to one day evolve my scales, but I also work on expression and trechnique within what I do best.


Bryant

 

[USMC0341]

I'm a big fan of the Harmonic Minor scale and I also like to bust out some Phrygian. Depends on my mood and what I am playing over...


JB

 

[The ORIGINAL South Of Heaven]

Phrygian Dominant, Hirajoshi, Whole Tone, and Diminished.

 

[The Grand Design]

Can you guys tab out some of these scales?

 

[Loner]

Check guitar.com's scale generator.

 

[fireclown]

Harmonic minor I love that baroque classical sound

 

[Ironbird666]

HArmonic minor or phrygian usually, although I have a strong tendency to bust out the tried and true blues scale all the time. When it come to writing riffs anything goes though, the sicker the better sometimes!