The Modal Scales: Lydian, Ionian, Mixolydian, Dorian, Aeolian, Phrygian and Locrian Click the play button below to listen to my podcast on the modal scales: Here is a transcript of the podcast if you want to follow along: Good morning. … Continue reading →
Chromatic, Whole Tone, And Pentatonic Scales On The Piano This is a podcast I recorded several years ago, but scales are still scales, so hope you get a lot out of it. Here is a transcription of the podcast if … Continue reading →
What To Do With A Pentatonic Scale The most familiar type of scale is the “diatonic scale” which contains 8 scale notes in each octave. But there are other types of scales which have different numbers of notes. One is … Continue reading →
Three Types of Music Scales Click on the button below to listen to this podcast: Here is a transcript of the podcast: Hello again. This is Duane with “More Good Stuff You Really Ought to Know.” Today, I’d like to … Continue reading →
SIX THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT MUSIC SCALES Chances are your lessons include scale exercises. And chances are you don’t much enjoy playing them. Very few people enjoy playing scales but they do so much good for our playing that … Continue reading →
There are many uses for a pentatonic scale and here is one of those uses. Of course you know that a pentatonic scale is composed of just 5 notes – the root, 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th of a major … Continue reading →
You already know of major and minor scales and you’re probably playing some or all of these scales in your lessons but those 48 scales barely scratch the surface of the many types of scales that we find in the … Continue reading →
There are many, many forms of the blues, from rhythm-and-blues to all kinds of jazz tunes to hundreds, if not thousands of popular songs, and even some kinds of gospel music. In this podcast I discuss the basis of the … Continue reading →
Some cousins don’t get along with each other, but others are “kissing cousins”. And that’s exactly what the C major scale and the A minor scale are – kissing cousins. What makes them like that? They are related because they … Continue reading →
This podcast is part one of a two-part series on the blues scale — what it is, how it is used, and how it is formed. Listen how to include a minor 3rd, diminished 5th, and minor 7th to add … Continue reading →
