C scale, the 1st note and the 8th note of that scale would both be c. Add some distortion, reverb and delay and you will be transported to that world. Students learn the half and whole step pattern for the major scale and discover that all major scales are built with the same pattern. List of pieces which use the whole tone scale wikipedia. Starting with the given note, complete each major scale. Show me chords that sound good with a c whole tone scale. Scales a whole tone scale bass ultimate guitar archive. This is a socalled symmetrical scale, meaning that the interval is the same throughout the scale. The whole tone scale consists of note a whole step apart. It is not for nothing that it is called whole tone scale, is it. This scale will allow you to create interesting tensed leads. You should practice the whole tone scale full range, in thirds, in triads, etc. Aug 17, 2001 there are only two whole tone scales with different notes in as each step of the scale is a whole tone. But because any note of the scale can be considered the root, it does create a sound that seems to wander aimlessly.
Learn about the whole tone scale, commonly used in romantic music as well as jazz music, and its difference from. This pattern can be played over any augmented chord. The guitar should sit on your right leg with your right arm resting on top of the body of the guitar keeping the neck tilted slightly upwards. W w h w w w h w 1 whole step, or 2 semitones or 2 frets. Learn jazz guitar from jane miller with an intermediate guitar lesson for the whole tone scale. Do not support the neck with your left hand, rather keep the guitar in position with your right arm.
In this tutorial were going to learn an uncommon type of guitar scale, the whole tone scale, that, as the name suggests, is composed of only whole tones take a look at your guitar and give yourself a little bit of a music theory reminder. An introduction to symmetrical scales for guitar guitar. The instruments also stay together as a whole set which cannot be swapped with other groups. You can also notice that this scale has 6 notes, so the name. The 14 most common and usable guitar scales printable and ready to use 1. D major when writing key signatures the order of flats and sharps must always remain the same. C ocarina g ocarina click on the score to view exercises for any scale. Use this major scale pattern to help complete the exercises. Guitar whole tone scale patterns positions youtube.
The main reason is that the scale has no semitones to its structure. The guitar major scale is happy upbeat and useful in a variety of styles of music. The whole half step formula is similar to the scale formulas only it uses whole and half steps to explain the construction of a scale. The whole tone or augmented scale is sometimes used to create a dreamlike sound. A particularly easy scale is the whole tone scale, so called because all the steps in the scale are whole steps. The pattern for a wholetone scale is easy to remember because it consists only of whole steps w. A wholetone scale is a scale made entirely of whole steps and has only six notes.
The whole tone scale can spice up your blues solos very easily. For this, it is just playing the hexatonic of the own dominant in question. The whole tone scale, consisting entirely of whole tones is in contradistinction to the chromatic scale which consists entirely of half steps or semitones, as well as diatonic scales like the major and minor scales which consist of semitones and whole tones. The whole tone scale for guitar jazz guitar online. Use my search bar to find exactly what youre looking for.
The whole tone scale for guitar guitarskillbuilder. The whole tone scale is made up of six notes, which is smaller than the major scale modes but is bigger than the pentatonic scale, and it actually fits fairly easily under the fingers on the fretboard. The whole tone scale is a coolsounding dominant 7th scale that you can use to add tension to your dominant 7th chords. So going one fret up or down the neck is a half step.
Enjoy experimenting with the whole tone scale, and remember, there are only two of them, so they arent too difficult to learn. Clicking here and on the image below will open a pdf file of the guitar major scale chart that prints nicely. Jul 12, 2016 the whole tone scale works over this chord as well. Diminished scale on one page diminished mi3 patterns. Link to free printable guitar scales pdf file with all 5 positions of the guitar melodic minor scale. They are a great resource, like the guitar instructions books, which help cover many areas of study and allow you to test your knowledge of theory. Since there are only two possible whole tone scale positions that is, the whole tone scale can be transposed only once, it is either c2 0 or c2 1. The wholetone scale is a great scale to learn if you want to add some crunch to your lines. The composer and music theorist george perle calls the whole tone scale interval cycle 2, or c2.
Major scales are built on a specific pattern of halfstep and whole step intervals. See, it starts the same way as a diminished scale g ab bb cb but then its all built in. The major scale always follows the same pattern, and you will generally see it explained like this. Pdf total guitar the ultimate scale book guilherme mauricio. As well as a complete rundown of all the most useful and useable scale. This refers to the first, third and fifth note in the major or minor scale sequence. The wholetone scale can be used to add tensions to your jazz guitar improvisations over dominant 7th chords.
Jun 22, 2019 backing track for improvisation with wholetone scale whole tone scale improvisation example. In this short scale tutorial we will be discussing the whole tone scale. However, a chromatic scale includes every halfnote step in between the two cs. The wholetone scale is an elusive and, for most musicians, problematic series of notes. Link to page dedicated to guitar melodic minor scale. Then write the name of the scale and fill in its key signature. One of the problems for guitar players is that the whole tone scale seems quite obtuse. This is a list of notable musical works which use the whole tone scale bela bartok. Dec 10, 2014 in this lesson ill show you two ways to play the whole tone scale up and down the fretboard. These are not lessons, but supplements to my lessons. Because all the notes have 1 tone of distance among them.
The pattern for a major scale is whole step, whole step, halfstep, whole step, whole step, whole step, halfstep. Com the whole tone guitar scale whole tone scale 12fr. Free printable guitar scales 14 most commonly used scales. Scale patterns as i mentioned in the previous article, you should always practice all of your scales as you would practice your major scales. Constructing the scale is rather simplesix wholesteps and youre there. Here are some free pdfs used to supplement my free video lessons. Guitar scales printable charts of the most commonly used scales. Starting on any note, if you follow this pattern you will build a major scale in the notes key. The composer olivier messiaen called the whole tone scale his first mode of limited transposition.
Fingering is a personal choice of which finger feels natural to you. The first is a pattern that stays in position and can be repeated on every note of the scale. A set of three notes played as a chord or arpeggio that are stacked in third intervals the root, the third and the fifth, based on the notes of the major or minor scale. There is a host of theory worksheets here for you to download. Printable downloadable whole tone scales guitar chart. The fretboard is shown with the lowest pitch string at the bottom and the highest pitch string at the top unless youve tuned your instrument differently.
In this lesson i will be explaining how to play the whole tone scale on guitar by explaining how its formed. In this lesson, you will learn how to build the whole tone scale and apply it to your jazz guitar playing. Wholetone scale on one page wholetone scale circle diagram. It also sounds quite odd to people that have never been exposed to it before. The whole tone scale is a sixnote or hexatonic scale. It can be used in many different contexts to bring a very unique and different feel to a song. Added scale formulae and major scales with formulae applied. So, why does the whole tone scale not sound like other guitar scales. Guitar whole tone scale chart printable pdf subject. In the middle of the ensemble are the main melody instruments which are called the balungan. A whole tone is the same as two steps on the keyboard a half tone is consequently one step. Click here for a free printable high quality pdf file of this guitar scale. Playing whole tone scales on guitar with ty the guitar guy in this intermediate guitar lesson from ty the guitar guy, learn how to utilize the whole tone scale in your playing, and build tension with intervals. Major scales are the building blocks for all of music.
It therefore has all the notes of both the ascending form of the melodic minor jazz minor and the harmonic minor. Because of the scales construction theres a few cool ways that you can apply it on the guitar neck and use it in your playing. The whole tone scale learn how the whole tone scale is built and how to use it. Example guitar solo incorporating wholetone scales. The whole tone scale is a nice tool to get some shifting outside ideas on a minor chord and has been used for this by quite a few people since the 60s. How to play wholetone scales on guitar jamieholroydguitar. This workbook includes three engaging worksheets that create light bulb moments into how music works and why scales are an important part of music study. Here is an example of a lead guitar solo incorporating whole tone scales. Scale diagrams can also be labeled with either letters or scale degrees. The 12bar and e major pentatonic scales respectively above, left. Aug 03, 2019 whole tone scale whole tone scale for guitar whole tone scale theory as its name suggests, a wholetone scale is simply a series of notes a tone apart there are no other intervals such as a semitone, or minor third between the notes, and every note in the scale can be considered to be its root.
Targeting targeting is how you approach a chord tone either by scale tone or chromatically. Whole tone scale or hexatonic scale is a scale made by the sequence. Link to guitar pro file of tab for the guitar melodic minor scale scale 7. Check out my free video lessons on my free lessons page. Learning the whole tone scale hexatonic simplifying theory.
Half tone, whole tone, minor third, and major third are the building blocks of the scales in this book. The whole tone scale is a harsh sounding dissonant scale. The ultimate guide to dominant chords for jazz guitar. Your onestop guide for all things dominant chords learn theory, chord shapes. Your left hand needs to be free to move about the fretboard. Whole tones scales are underused in rock music, but their lack of tonal center provide great opportunities for a progressive sound.
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