I'm looking for different scales than the usual pentatonic blues or minor scales. What weird scale do you play with? Oh yeah and I'm talking guitar scales
Bop scales are really interesting to me. I'm not sure what a guitar guitar scale is, but I'm guessing it is just a typo. Anyway, to create a Bop-type scale you can just take any of your normal chords or scales, and use the chromatic notes, either a half step lower or higher than the chord tones of the scale. (ex. a Bop-ified Bb7: Bb, (Db) D (Eb), (E) F (F#), (G) Ab (A), Bb (B).) There are many possibilities that open up once you free yourself from strictly playing notes within one scale. You can use the flatted tones as blue notes, and slide up to the safe note from them. You can run up and down different arpeggios in the key, while playing the half step up notes first (i.e. B Bb, Eb D, F# F, A Ab. Or you can sit on the chromatic notes just as you would any chord tone, and create bigtime tension (Warning: use sparingly, or your jam-mates will slap you). It can be difficult to keep Bebop lines from sounding like chromatic jibberish, but if used with taste they can be the hippest shit ever. By the way, don't assume that this kind of stuff can only be used in a Jazz setting. Once you develop an ear for the sound these kinds of intervals create you will hear echoes of the style in all types of music. Jam bands, Funk groups, even Heavy Metal bands. If you want to hear this style in action listen to some Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, early Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, or Bud Powell. This is definately a good thread, and I am excited to see what comes next.
Hungarian Minor which is also refered to as the "Gypsy Scale". It's a natural minor scale with the 7th and 4th sharpened.
http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/guitar_scales.php This website has a whole bunch of different scales, plus diagrams for them.
If you know the entire scale on the fretboard you don't really need to "learn" a mode. Just understand what it is.
