Here is an example of a lead guitar solo incorporating whole tone scales. Whole tone scale you will be emailed an updated copy anytime a new scale is added in this lesson ill show you two ways to play the whole tone scale up and down the fretboard. Scales are presented as fretboard diagrams, as well as in notation and tab. This free ebook contains the charts to the mostoften used guitar chords. Kind of reminds me of a rat scurrying around a torture chamber. The whole tone scale complete watch again next lesson this course is a comprehensive guide to arpeggios, chord tones and scales with a focus of cementing their relationships in a way that will make them instantly usable within any musical situation.
Thats not the whole scale were missing a note in it but if you wanted to improvise in. To listen to the unique sound of the whole tone scale, click on the play button on the interactive guitar below. The diminished scale would be good for heavy metal. Per altre parti cerca pizieno nel finder di musescore. Heres a free guitar scales pdf ebook 22 pages with plenty of scales and arpeggios patterns. This is why we refer to it as a symmetrical scale, because the repeating interval pattern takes you back to the note that you started on.
Download our free pdf versions of each scale with fingering. Here is a g whole tone scale with the root note on the 6th string, moving up in position from that starting note. The white keys with a black key in between are a whole step apart and the ones without a black key in between are a half step. Example guitar solo incorporating wholetone scales. Wholetone harmony, with its similarly structured chords and absence of semitones, lacks the harmonic contrasts. The whole tone scale is, as the name implies, built from notes with intervals of a whole note. For each scale, you can learn a number of different shapes and patterns, depending on the zone of the fretboard youre working on. The ebook contains the most important scales for beginners, such as major and minor, but shows also more advanced. Guitar whole tone scale patterns positions youtube. Show me chords that sound good with a db whole tone scale. Learn how to apply the scale in classical, jazz, and rock settings. The way the guitar is setup makes it difficult for the guitar to be in tune everywhere on the fret board.
This scale works well over a dominant 7 chord in this example e7 is mentioned. Each scale is illustrated in more than one fretboard position, giving you a suitable scale pattern. To see the scale centered on any portion of the fretboard use your mouse to drag the green outline left or right. These scale charts are written from the same prospective that tablature is written. The whole tone scale consists of note a whole step apart. Unless you really want to get weird and just want to add some really bizarre stuff to impress your friends that are into jazz, fussion and contemporary classic music. As the name suggests, the wholetone scale is constructed of whole tones or major 2nd intervals. Did you think that the whole tone scale was just for jazz and classical music. Scale diagrams can also be labeled with either letters or scale degrees. Dominant 9th chords with raised 5ths are really weird but believe it or not, i have run across them in charts before.
The numbers are the the fingers that you should use. The natural minor is the aeolian mode of the relative major scale. Armed with this theoretical knowledge of how to build and apply the whole tone scale, lets move on to applying this scale to the fingerboard as you learn four common shapes for the whole tone scale. This tutorial will teach all you need to know about how to play scales on the guitar. After learning strumming chords, the most common step for beginners is to begin practicing single note melodies, and knowing your guitar scales is a huge help for this task. The scale alternates half and whole steps until the scale starts again.
The ionian mode is just another way of saying the major scale. Links to dedicated page, high quality pdf and guitar pro files. Backing track for improvisation with wholetone scale whole tone scale improvisation example. The major scale, harmonic minor scale and melodic minor scale all have seven different notes and an eighth note that repeats the first. Guitar lovers manual is a digital book with sound in pdf format for printing purposes. The wholetone scale is an elusive and, for most musicians, problematic series of. Notice how the whole tone scale helps us to link all these ideas together in a way that sounds logical. The whole tone scale for guitar jazz guitar online.
The major scale uses onenote from each letter of the musical alphabet. Free printable guitar scales 14 most commonly used scales. The fundamental interval in western music is the half tone or semitone, e. The bottom line is the 6th string lowest sounding, and the top line is the 1st string highest sounding. 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. The book comes as a pdf file, which can be read on your screen and printed suitable for printing on us letter and a4 sized paper. The whole tone scale is often one of the first symmetrical scales that many. The whole tone scale for guitar guitarskillbuilder. We can also use it, sort of, over a minor chord, but when we do we have to play it a semitone lower. Link to pdf file with all 5 positions of theguitar minor pentatonic scale. Because there are no semitones, all thirds are major, and thus all triads are augmented. Enjoy experimenting with the whole tone scale, and remember, there are only two of them, so they arent too difficult to learn. Having your guitar in tune lets you concentrate on learning to play, not hours of learning how to tune.
Isbn 18973111 this electronic edition, isbn 18973111, may be copied and distributed without prior written permission of the publisher provided that this edition is not altered in any way, shape, or form, and that it is distributed for free. High graphic resolution enables printing of best quality large format printouts. The guitar scales chart book features all of the widelyused guitar scales pentatonic, blues, etc. Indeed, all six tones of a wholetone scale can be played simply with two augmented triads whose roots are a. The a minor pentatonic comes from the natural minor scale. This means that it also has less notes than most of the other scales you use. After clicking the buy now button, youll be directed to our online store at gumroad. The wholetone scale has no leading tone and because all tones are the same distance apart, no single tone stands out, and the scale creates a blurred, indistinct effect. The scale consists of six tones the pictures show one. To contact me write a private messages to pizieno0 without other numbers next n. Half tone, whole tone, minor third, and major third are the building blocks of the scales in this book.
Two mutually exclusive wholetone scales are formed by choosing alternate notes of the chromatic scale which has 12 notes per octave. It is a symmetrical scale in that it follows a distinct pattern of steps, those being all whole steps from tonic to tonic, this poses a problem as there can only be a total of six whole steps within the twelve notes we have, so the seventh degree is left out all together making. Bach the parts of the guitar there are three main types of guitars,the steelstring acoustic, the nylon string or classical guitar, and the electric guitar. Click here for a free printable high quality pdf file of this guitar scale. For a more detailed study of how to play different dominant 7 th chords and develop overall well rounded chord and comping techniques, check out this 30 day comping series i wrote. There are only two whole tone scales with different notes in as each step of the scale is a whole tone. It contains the sections chord, scale and arpeggio.
Clicking on the graphics will start playback of the integrated sound. The wholetone scale is a symmetrical scale where each note is one wholetone apart. Download your free 62 page pdf beginner jazz guide. This effect is especially emphasised by the fact that triads built on such scale tones are all augmented triads. The whole tone scale has some pretty cool shapes in it. Guitar lovers manual chord, arpeggio and scale pdf with.
This is a socalled symmetrical scale, meaning that the interval is the same throughout the scale. Its a modified version of the same melody transposed down a whole tone. This chart illustrates the tones of the twelve whole tone scales. As the name suggests, the whole tone scale is constructed purely from whole steps 2 frets.
For other parts search pizieno in the musescores sheet music finder. Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available. Pentatonic scales for guitar a pentatonic scale has just 5 notes. If youre serious about playing guitar, you should have a look at one of the best guitar. Aflat wholetone scale play piano scales in all keys. The tablature and standard musical notation for the scale will be shown below.
I mentioned that there were two applications of the whole tone scale, and weve really only looked at one, its use over a dominant chord. How to play wholetone scales on guitar jamieholroydguitar. Develop syncopated parts that exploit the nuances of the wholetone scale. Windows users should leftclick to download audio files. Free guitar scales pdf 84 scale and arpeggios chart. Its in a different meter, has a different rhythm and a slightly faster tempo the previous 44 common time time signature has changed to 64, and you can increase the tempo so that one bar of 64 lasts as long more or less as one bar of. The whole tone scale is a six note scales with a numeric formula of 123.
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. Thus, the wholetone scale comprises six degrees per octave. Interactive guitar tabs and scale patterns included. Show me chords that sound good with a d whole tone scale.
The whole tone scale is a nice tool to get some shifting outside ideas on a. List of pieces which use the whole tone scale wikipedia. Click here to download this free printable guitar scales chart pdf to your computer. Home symmetric scales wholetone scale aflat wholetone scale. The major scale is easiest to see by looking at the white keys on the piano. To me its a interesting scale that should be used sparingly for variety in your playing.
Link to guitar pro file of tab for the guitar whole tone scale. For this reason i suggest that you go out and buy an inexpensive tuner. Wholetone scale over dominant chords robert renman. Link to pdf file with all 5 positions of the guitar whole tone scale. Click here to download a printable pdf of this lessons notation. You can download a pdf and read the article on my blog via this link. The explanatory text is in italian, to translate for example you can switch it into english. So that would be another way to build a whole tone scale over two octaves. Scales in general we can think of all scales as a derivative of the major scale. A whole tone is the same as two steps on the keyboard a half tone is consequently one step. The halfwhole diminished scale is an 8 note symmetrical scale. The guitar scales chart book is an instant download, so you can start learning and playing new scales within minutes.
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