Re:Show HN: Interactive guitar scales diagrams
by slimshady94 on Sunday June 10, 2018 @07:16AM
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Sounds like something described here? https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?sho...
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Re:Show HN: Interactive guitar scales diagrams
by Grue3 on Monday June 11, 2018 @06:19AM
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For septatonic scales I use the following mnemonic: there are 14 notes in 2 octaves and they are distributed among 5 strings. 14=4*3+2 so there's one string with 2 notes and 4 strings with 3 notes. And it always goes like
OO-O
OO-O
O-O
O-OO
O-OO
The semitone steps seem to "gravitate" towards the 2-note string. So just loop this pattern around and you get all possible septatonic scale shapes (modulo the offset caused by shorter distance between G and B strings). Also the second note of the two-note string is always a minor scale root.