They are quite similar to each other, but the Lydian mode has a unique and almost sublime – as if happiness had extended to a god-like plain. The Lydian mode is the 4th degree of the major scale. Scale #1: Lydian (A – B – C# – D# – E – F# – G#) The A shapes of these scales are also relatively simple to practice on a guitar or piano. Genre #4: Best Scales For Jazz (Lydian / Ionian / Dorian)įor the examples below I’ll use the key of A – as it can be both dreamy and soulful and when played using these scales. This technique has been quite commonly used by songwriters when coming up with catchy hooks for a song. You can even begin composing a song using only the pentatonic of a key and then adding notes from either the natural major or minor scale of that key to make it more interesting. Natural Minors and Majors are a cohesive route for expansion when constructing rock songs. Scale #2: Natural Major / Minor (E – F# – G# – A – B – C# – D#) or (E – F# – G – A – B – C – D) These players had a very basic, but powerful knowledge base of the guitar, and used this shape to build most of their songs.
Its use was first popularised by the first recorded blues players like Robert Johnson. The minor pentatonic is responsible for building some of the most simple, yet iconic hooks and melodies in music history. Scale #1: Minor Pentatonic / Blues (E, G, A, B, D) Genre #3: Best Scales For Rock (Minor Pentatonic / Blues / Natural Minor / Major)įor the examples below, we are going to use the key of E – as it’s often the lowest note on the open fretted guitars and basses that rock songs are composed on. It can also be used to transfer deep, sad, and judgemental emotions. This scale is widely used by all top trap artists, and it usually has an aggressive vibe. Genre #1: Best Scales For Trap ( A♭ Major / D Natural Minor / G Major / Bb Harmonic Minor) Scale #1: A♭ Major (A♭, B♭, C, D♭, E♭, F, G) Try to learn the relation between each scale and how they differ, then apply the same shame of each scale to another key. Start by learning the major, minor and pentatonic (5-note) scales in one key. There is quite an extensive list of scales in western music, and the idea of learning them all can be quite overwhelming. Using the example of A minor again, our chord becomes A minor, B diminished, Cmajor, D minor, E minor, F Maj and G Maj.
Each note in a scale has a chord related to it. We can also use scales to help us access deeper melodic possibilities when composing. In music, we use scales as a type of map of creative melodic and harmonic choices when writing a song.įor example, if a song is in A minor, we know that we can use the notes A, B, C, D, E, F, and G – as these are the notes that make up the A minor scale. Scales generally consist of 7 notes within an octave.
Scales are a system of notes that make up a specific key of a song.
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