Thanks, Stone

[John_6-63]

Stone,

I just wanted to say thanks. I appreciate your time and effort in making these lessons public information. I bought a piano about a year and a half ago and I've been teaching myself to play. I have playing from sheet music but lately I've been looking for Theory info. online so that I could eventually write my own music.

I think you've done a very good job explaining Music Theory in an easy to understand format. I've especially enjoyed the melodic patterns and modal theory sections and the chord chart at the top of Modes Part IV. Your web site has been the most informative so far. These lessons will keep me busy for a while. Looking forward to future lessons.

BTW...
I just started working on a tune by J.S. Bach: Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor, BWV 908

If you haven't heard it, check it out - it really rips! Get the sheet music - I think you would really enjoy playing this one on guitar.

Joe

[StoneDragon]

You're welcome... glad you like the lessons.

[zbalz]

Wow! I got a copy of that song...thats insane! I think if you can play that at a year and a half practice, good work!!
-zbalz

[John_6-63]

Stone, I found these intervals at the following webpage:
http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/piano/

There are a lot that I never heard of.
Have you seen all these before?

Some of them use the same number twice like this one (the 5 is used twice). Why is that?

SCALE: C Pentatonic Blues
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,b3,4,b5,5,b7

SCALE: C Major
a.k.a.: C, C Ionian
intervals: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7

SCALE: C Harmonic Minor
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,2,b3,4,5,b6,7

SCALE: C Melodic Minor (Ascending)
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,2,b3,4,5,6,7

SCALE: C Melodic Minor (Descending)
a.k.a.: C Natural Minor, C Relative Minor
intervals: 1,2,b3,4,5,b6,b7

SCALE: C Pentatonic Major
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,2,3,5,6

SCALE: C Pentatonic Minor
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,b3,4,5,b7

SCALE: C Pentatonic Blues
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,b3,4,b5,5,b7

SCALE: C Pentatonic Neutral
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,2,4,5,b7

SCALE: C Ionian
a.k.a.: C Major
intervals: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7

SCALE: C Dorian
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,2,b3,4,5,6,b7

SCALE: C Phrygian
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,b2,b3,4,5,b6,b7

SCALE: C Lydian
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,2,3,#4,5,6,7

SCALE: C Mixolydian
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,2,3,4,5,6,b7

SCALE: C Aeolian
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,2,b3,4,5,b6,b7

SCALE: C Locrian
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,b2,b3,4,b5,b6,b7

SCALE: C Half Diminished
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,b2,b3,3,b5,5,6,b7

SCALE: C Whole Diminished
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,2,b3,4,b5,#5,6,7

SCALE: C Augmented
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,#2,3,#4,#5,7

SCALE: C Chromatic
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,b2,2,b3,3,4,b5,5,#5,6,b7,7

SCALE: C Roumanian Minor
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,2,b3,b5,5,6,b7

SCALE: C Spanish Gypsy
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,b2,3,4,5,#5,b7

SCALE: C Blues
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,b3,4,b5,5,b7

SCALE: C Double Harmonic
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,b2,3,4,5,#5,7

SCALE: C Eight Tone Spanish
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,b2,b3,3,4,b5,#5,b7

SCALE: C Enigmatic
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,b2,3,b5,#5,b7,7

SCALE: C Leading Whole Tone
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,2,3,b5,#5,6,b7

SCALE: C Lydian Augmented
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,2,3,#4,#5,6,7

SCALE: C Neopolitan Major
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,b2,b3,4,5,6,7

SCALE: C Neopolitan Minor
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,b2,b3,4,5,b6,b7

SCALE: C Pelog
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,b2,b3,b5,b7,7

SCALE: C Prometheus
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,2,3,b5,6,b7

SCALE: C Prometheus Neopolitan
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,b2,3,b5,6,b7

SCALE: C Six Tone Symmetrical
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,b2,3,4,#5,6

SCALE: C Super Locrian
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,b2,b3,3,b5,#5,b7

SCALE: C Lydian Minor
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,2,3,b5,5,b6,b7

SCALE: C Lydian Diminished
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,2,b3,b5,5,b6,b7

SCALE: C Nine Tone Scale
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,2,b3,3,b5,5,#5,6,7

SCALE: C Auxiliary Diminished
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,2,b3,4,b5,#5,6,7

SCALE: C Auxiliary Augmented
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,2,3,b5,#5,b7

SCALE: C Auxiliary Diminished Blues
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,b2,b3,3,b5,5,6,b7

SCALE: C Major Locrian
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,2,3,4,b5,#5,b7

SCALE: C Overtone
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,2,3,b5,5,6,b7

SCALE: C Diminished Whole Tone
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,b2,b3,3,b5,b6,b7

SCALE: C Dominant 7th
a.k.a.:
intervals: 1,2,4,5,6,b7

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[StoneDragon]

I've run across most of those scales... different names for some of them though.

Scales are one of those areas where I think it is better to know a few and know how to use them than it is to know a billion but not know how to use any of them. So, I've never gone crazy with scale learning.


Something to think about:

Many of those scales are simply modes of each other (same fingerboard pattern, just resolving to a different note within the pattern)

Pentatonic - Major minor and neutral all use the same patterns.

Blues - just a minor pentatonic with an extra note (b5).

Major - Ionian (same thing as major scale), Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Myxolydian, Aeolian and Locrian all use the same patterns.

Minor - Natural minor (melodic minor descending) is the same thing as the Aeolian mode.

Harmonic minor, Roumanian Minor, and Spanish Gypsy use the same patterns.

Melodic minor, Lydian Augmented, and Super Locrian use the same patterns.

Auxiliary Augmented and Prometheus are the same scale which is normally called Whole Tone.


Etc.....

[John_6-63]

Yes I understand. There's plenty of room for creativity no matter how large or how small the spectrum of scales used. Thanks for commenting on the mode patterns too.

Joe