Blues Scales FretBoard Maps

[Guitar Toad]

Does anyone have a good fretboad diagrams .jpeg or GIF or .pdf to show the basic flatted 5th blues scale on the whole fretboard. Lets say in E for simplicity. I could make one but it wouldn't look very good using black red and blue markers.

Perhaps also for the major scales too?

Thanks for the help.

[JimiHWannaBe]

http://www.looknohands.com/chordhous.../index_rb.html
Great site i teach all my lessons off here

[ToneDeaf]

Thanks for the site...

[Chace]

I've never understood how to read those diagrams... can someone give me a brief lesson?

[Guitar Toad]

I've never understood how to read those diagrams... can someone give me a brief lesson?

These diagrams tell me within a particular Key/scale that I am using (Blues, Major, minor) what notes are available for improvising. Also, it gives a pattern to easily moves to improvise over which ever chord is being played at the moment.

I have been playing around with the blues scale lately. I just pluck around playing notes and out comes some really cool 60's and 70 bluesy riffs that I have heard a million times.

But, I'm no Twilight Odyssey or flank....they can better tell us.

[TwilightOdyssey]

That chart gave me a headache! What the hell was that about?! LOL

What people call the 'Blues Scale' is your basic minor pentatonic scale with a b5 added into the mix. Sometimes I use the b5, sometimes I don't; depends on how wide I want the spacing.

I am about to run out to rehearsal right now, but I will log on later tonight and post a more detailed explanation as well as a TAB or two

[Chace]

So I can use those shapes anywhere on the neck??

[Guitar Toad]

I just wanted a couple of good basic scales to jam with. Years ago when I played I had the basic C Major scale down. But, as I have returned to playing wanted to start off with the blues scale. I assumed it would be another good basic scale, to know and use. Especially since I love the blues. I just need to learn how to use it anywhere on the fretboard, I think that's called learning the modes?

What about the Aeolian scale?

[TwilightOdyssey]

I've made the TAB and will be converting it to jpg's shortly.
Keep watching this space!

[TwilightOdyssey]

The Blues scale is a minor pentatonic scale, with one added note, the b5 ... so, it has 6 notes. The scale steps are: root - minor 3rd - perfect 4th - flattened 5th - perfect 5th - 7th

In Am this scale would be A - C - D - Eb - E - G

You can move this scale around by begining the scale on each successive note; so, Pos 1 starts on A(The root note); Pos 2 starts on C (the 3rd), and so on.

Photoshop is being weird today, so I uploaded the files here:

POS. 1 http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1...M3ONNPEKY9D5IG

POS. 2 http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1...Y1S0O70IH1NP0F

POS. 3 http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1...R334RJP1GRG2PN

POS. 4 http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2...40FLX0JPFZHFSP

POS. 5 http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1...936BHI0N1EAZPQ

POS. 6 http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2...R248XXOHB35NU2

[TwilightOdyssey]

I just need to learn how to use it anywhere on the fretboard, I think that's called learning the modes?

What about the Aeolian scale?

Modes are a different matter. Basically, modes are playing the major scale in any key, but begining and ending on a note other than the root note. Each one of these 'sub scales' has it's own Greek name, depending on which scale step you begin and end on. The examples I posted are only different postions of the blues scale; they are not modes.

[Guitar Toad]

Can any Major or minor scale be given a bluesy feel by adding that flatted fifth?

And I know that SRV says he plays what he fells, lets a song take him where he feels it should go. I’m glad that he says that and blurs the lines to make me feel like I have freedom. But, how much did he/others “stray” from this minor pentatonic scale to end just playing what feels good?

I’m too analytically minded, I need a scale (non-blurred lines) to give me direction.

[JimiHWannaBe]

the "outside notes" SRV most commonly uses are a flated second Flated 4th flated 5th and flated 3rd.

[Guitar Toad]

the "outside notes" SRV most commonly uses are a flated second Flated 4th flated 5th and flated 3rd.

Great, I was sure he was systematic in his note selection even though he might not have know how to desribe it.

Thanks JimiWannaBe.

Was Hendrix a play by feel buy also? Or did he have a musical background before he got his strat?

[flank]

i dont think hendrix really knew anything about music theorywise.....other than the easy blues stuff (most of his solos were pentatonic or minor pent)......must of his stuff was just purely unique and straight from his mind, and his solos didnt stray too far from a simple formula (pent) but he bended those strings and made harmony of the strings into ways that came from his head and made them sound totally different

thats how i see it anyways