Rocky4 Posted February 12, 2012 Posted February 12, 2012 What scale do they use? I tend to stay away from stuff I don't understand (which is almost everything) but I've been on a UFO craze for the last couple of weeks. I've picked up on a few Schenker licks, and I think the most trouble I have is remembering where the notes are. I would love to be able to play a few melodic runs from early Schenker and Brian May, but I don't have a clue what scale they use.
AlanH Posted February 12, 2012 Posted February 12, 2012 What scale do they use? I tend to stay away from stuff I don't understand (which is almost everything) but I've been on a UFO craze for the last couple of weeks. I've picked up on a few Schenker licks, and I think the most trouble I have is remembering where the notes are. I would love to be able to play a few melodic runs from early Schenker and Brian May, but I don't have a clue what scale they use. Don't know about those two players but natural minor is pretty well used for "melodic" solos. You can pretty much do melodic solos in any scale, though; minor being better for this because of the more "sad" sound that it gives. Chris De Gamo of Queensryche does a lot of melodic solos in natural minor, like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXo0pnX6kkw&ob=av2e I'm currently learning the solo in Megadeth's "A tout le Monde" which is in F# pentatonic minor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU-dKoFZT0A
rocketman Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 Well it all depends on the effect you want underneath the chords. Melodic players don't need to get fancy with their scales. David Gilmore is one of my favorite melodic players and he pretty much plays pentatonic licks. If you want to spice it up listen to the solo to YYZ which is written in spanish phrygian mode. An interesting twist on major chords is to play a mixolydian scale over them. Tom Sawyer is an example. For me the best way is to experiment with various tunes. For example get some bossa nova music and play a locrian scale up and down throughout it. "Jazz" up a run on a I-IV-V pattern by playing a mixolydian run on the V chord. The best players do all this without thinking of course. This was never me but I'm trying to "turn off" my brain.
RaysEpiphone Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 Any type of Jazz Fusion will most certainly have some Melodic stuff in it. But beware, as Fusion also has strange beats/arrangement's in it to.
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