Handy scale website

[thezerofret]

Really great resources. thanks!

[mindlessgrind]

very cool bro thanks!

[Lord_Elixer]

Edit :- after re-reading, I noticed my suggestion had already been posted... my apologies.

[Cogito]

chordbook.com is the bees knees. THANKS!

[GuitaristOfHell]

thanks

[Black_tear]

Very cool and intuitive. Thanks

[The McThief]

Originally Posted by Minus

and here is a version for everyone with more than six strings...

GuitarScales.nl - Guitar Scale Dictionary, scales, guitar, guitarra, gitar, gitarra

i use this little tool quite often - and find it helpful...

have fun

This looks really useful, but I have no idea how to...read it per say. Can someone help me out? It just looks like a bunch of dots all over the fretboard

Music theory noob ftl

[SchecterWhore]

Originally Posted by The McThief

This looks really useful, but I have no idea how to...read it per say. Can someone help me out? It just looks like a bunch of dots all over the fretboard

Music theory noob ftl

Looking at this site, I don't think that their scale dictionary is very... well, very good. Mostly because the names they are using are not what people typically refer to these scales as (as far as I know), or are pretty obscure. Examples:

Whole - they mean "whole tone"

Whole diminished - they mean "whole tone diminished"

Pentatonic neutral - never heard of it, it's apparently a mixolydian or natural minor scale without a third or sixth.

Half diminished - they mean half/whole diminished, or octatonic, which is alternating half steps and whole steps (i.e. T H W H W H W H [W to tonic]), numerically represented as 1 b2 b3 3 #4 5 6 b7. This is confusing, because there is a half-diminished chord, 1 b3 b5 b7, and nobody says "half diminished scale". If they did, I'd think "locrian mode".

Whole diminished - same deal, they mean whole/half diminished, or octatonic. This is the other mode of the scale presented above. There is a "fully diminished" chord, 1 b3 b5 bb7, so it sounds like some sort of interchange of terminology, as above.

Lydian minor - this one doesn't have a minor third, why call it minor at all? 1 2 3 #4 5 b6 b7 is an interesting scale formula, though. This is a mode of neapolitan major (which doesn't have a major third, ironically), if you want to know.

Nine-tone scale? Which one?

Auxilliary diminished blues - *

* See my sig.

There are other bullshit scales/names here. I'm actually really dissatisfied with a lot of the scales resources that guitarists have to deal with.

[bassman4534]

good site

[iseker]

I think you should check online all guitar scales tool out.. Really cool !!

[MakewayforMan]

Originally Posted by Minus

and here is a version for everyone with more than six strings...

GuitarScales.nl - Guitar Scale Dictionary, scales, guitar, guitarra, gitar, gitarra

i use this little tool quite often - and find it helpful...

have fun

I don't know if anyone else is seeing this but I'm getting a big "Ads by google" box at the very far left hand side. So basically I can't see the first fret at all. Which really pisses me off because I've been looking for a 7 string drop G scale website all effin morning.

"Fffffffffffuuuuuuuuuu Google!!!!!!"

[etanracni]

all-guitar-chords.com is pretty great

[Mettle209]

Thanks guys. I am loving all of the wonderful resources cited/linked in this thread discussion. I have been teaching "Begining Guitar" at my church for a year and a half now and all of this will come in handy.

[archer]

thanks bro!

[Explorer]

Originally Posted by MakewayforMan

I don't know if anyone else is seeing this but I'm getting a big "Ads by google" box at the very far left hand side. So basically I can't see the first fret at all. Which really pisses me off because I've been looking for a 7 string drop G scale website all effin morning.

"Fffffffffffuuuuuuuuuu Google!!!!!!"

I know I'm arriving late to the party, but I ran into this as well.

I took a quick look at the page's source code, found the SWF file being run, and just went there direclty:

http://www.rozengain.com/guitar-scal...rScalesWeb.swf

Cheers!

[whilstmyguitardjentlyweep]

I find this site very useful
Musicopedia - The Definitive Musicians Reference Resource

It has a massive list of scales, notation for 7 string guitar, dropped D tuning and, if you click on the root notes, it gives a handy positioning guide.

[tuneinrecords]

Very cool site. Diggin' the chord section. The scale stuff could be a little more in depth though. Otherwise awesome stuff.

[tuneinrecords]

Now this other site is way cool! Thanks for posting! Bookmarked it.
http://www.rozengain.com/guitar-scal...rScalesWeb.swf

[whatwecalldaryl]

this thing rules dude thanks

[jp72]

Awseome thanks :-)

[Autopsy7]

Just one more to add. This one is a little more basic and spells it out via tabs for the newer ERG users out there

Scalerator Guitar Scale Generator

[Grimbold]

oh
i've seen this one
it's really good
especially if you know what you're looking for

[HOKENSTYFE]

Much Obliged!

[trickae]

Hey guys,

Sorry to go off topic but there's an even handier method of mastering scales. It's called learning modes on the guitar that will help you visualize the entire neckboard as a combination of scales in any key. There's some simple rules that can be used to change a minor scale to a harmonic minor or a phyrigian scale to a phryigian dominant - its just a matter of knowing the rules.

Unfortunately vinnie moore's video on youtube is a terrible attempt at teaching it and lick library did a poor job of it as well - with their 7 DVD set. I know cuz i bought it.

Modes gave me trouble for a good 10 years until i finally swallowed my pride and gave in to taking lessons focussing on theory.

I could play a good ten malmsteen songs from start to finish but when my guitar teacher told me to play a C chord in 5 different positions I was lost. I can't stress enough how eye opening learning modes was - now changing keys, knowing what chords are available from odd sus2 / sus4 chords, knowing how to use the right scale or even experiment with a variety of different ones over a standard tune is insane. And it's not that difficult.

If you guys like i can write up a tutorial on modes, chord theory and pitch axis theory in a group of 3 lessons maybe in a thread of it's own. Let me know if there;s interest.

[SchecterWhore]

Do it.