Each of these 28 hexatonic scales can be played over a. The diatonic and pentatonic scales as near fourth chords. Aug 12, 2016 hexatonic simply means a six note scale. One nice thing about the minor hexatonic scale or any other hexatonic scale, for that matter is the fact that it is comprised of an even number of notessix, as opposed to five or sevenwhich lends it a rhythmically balanced quality that makes it ideally suited. A whole tone scale is composed by 6 notes in intervals of one whole step. Source scales modes symmetric scales bitriadic hexatonics quartals upper structure triads super structures create your own melodic patterns approach notes rhythmic displacement hemiolas retrograde inversion double stops and much more. It may also be called the minorthird halfstep scale due to the series of intervals produced. The only common hexatonic 6note scales we find in modern western music are the blues scale and the whole tone scale. List of music scales and modes guitar lessons jazz guitar licks. Jan 11, 2018 the intriguingly exotic sound of the c lydian hexatonic scale. This page provides links to lessons with formula charts, neck diagrams, tabs and licks for a better understanding. Scale pdf document or a single pdf page to a3, a4, a5, b4, b5 online.
It alternates intervals with half and whole steps, and there are two different versions with intervals ordered contrarily. Although each of these forms of itself comprises seven pitches, together they comprise nine, which might seem to call into question the scales status as a heptatonic scale. Hexatonics, is the seventh volume of jerry bergonzis series, inside improvisation. Pentatonic major scale guitar fretboard patterns chart, key of c. By using the website constitutes your consent to their write or usage. How keys and modes really work how music really works. The augmented scale, also known in jazz theory as the symmetrical augmented scale, is so called because it can be thought of as an interlocking combination of two augmented triads an augmented second or minor third apart. In this video rich explains the conceprt of hexatonic scales and offers three different ones that can used over a major, minor and stactic dominant 7th chords. It is not the only six note minor scale, the blues scale is also minor and has six notes.
To start, lets stick with the key of e minor, as its one of the most popular keys inrock. Hexatonic scale, musical scale containing six different tones within an octave. From the basic pentatonic scale guitar fretboard pattern to improvising using minor pentatonic scales all over the guitar neck. This interactive pdf is organized by different scale theory properties which are used to linked related pages across the entire encyclopedia. Hexatonic major scale guitar fretboard patterns chart, key. In music, these systems manifest themselves as collections of pitches such as scales and chords.
Smallpdf has the most popular rotate pdf tool to turn pages within any pdf file, including scans. You should spend time noticing how when you change one note, the scale. Heptatonic scale, musical scale made up of seven different tones. It is formed on the natural scale and explains why music today is in the major and minor modes and has triadic harmony as an integral.
Cardinality is the count of how many pitches are in the scale. An octatonic scale is also used as a term that describe a scale with eight notes in it. This six note scale minor scale can be thought of as with no 6th scale degree, or as the plus a natural second scale degree. In many cases we are simply adding a note to a pentatonic scale or deleting one from one of the seven modes. Welcome to this introductory lesson on the hexatonic scale. Following are a few tips, terms, and common structures that will be helpful for analyzing early twentiethcentury atonal music, such as that composed by members of the second viennese school schonberg, berg, webern. But some are certainly much more important to know than others, depending on which genres of music you play the most. Apr 09, 2020 hexatonic scale, also called sixnote scale or sixtone scale, musical scale containing six different tones within an octave. I encourage anyone who is actually interested in six note scales to look at a book of folk tunes and observe how many omit either the fourth or the sixth from the seven note diatonic scale and are therefore hexatonic in character.
You can also think of it as the pentatonic major scale plus the 4th scale degree. What im still not super clear on is, what are the differences between these two concepts. This scale is a very large part of the aural history of music. Eric johnson style soloing chapter 8 minor hexatonic scale. Play the inversions descending, as well as ascending, and. The hexatonic major scale is basically the major scale minus the 7th scale degree. One way to create a hexatonic scale is to combine the notes of two. The bitriadic hexatonic scales complete set mdecks music. In traditional classical theory, the melodic minor scale has two forms, as noted above, an ascending form and a descending form. Greek scales part i coming soon part ii greek scales coming soon tips for soloing on target scales and styles of music. The universal encyclopedia of scales mdecks music llc.
In music and music theory, a hexatonic scale is a scale with six pitches or notes per octave. A hexatonic scale which can also be thought of as a combination of two triadsis a sixnote scale. Hexatonics inside improvisation series, 7 jerry bergonzi on. This hexatonic scale, one of the least ambiguous of the species, can be used over cm tonic minor or dorian and eb. An introductory lesson on the hexatonic scale hear and.
When we say a scale is hexatonic, on guitar or any other instrument, we are simply saying the scale has six, and only six different notes. To keep things simple, we are going to investigate how to combine major triads a wholestep apart, but there are a number of other commonly used triad pairs. Combining elements of blues, rock, jazz, country, folk, bluegrass and world music, dickey betts forged his signature sound while laying the. In the video i discuss several sixnote scale ideas from the. Here is the full fretboard positions for the minor scale, memorize it and try to apply it over a set of chords. Pentatonics are working for you but youveworn them out. Looking for another way to alter a dom7 chord, i combined the concepts of triad pairs and tritone substitution to create a hexatonic 6note scale. Exercise 1 symmetric hexatonic scale applied to the 15 beat cycle the next note in the pattern would be e. Which scales are pentatonic or bitriadic hexatonic or truncated, etc what is the scale represented by a speci. The stand alone sound is oftentimes enough to make a strong, effective melodic statement regardless of how it is or isnt relating to the harmony over which it is being used. No registration or software installation is needed.
Hexatonic scales can be thought of as adding a tone to a pentatonic scale, or omitting a tone from a seventone scale. Major scale guitar fretboard patterns chart, key of c. But often folk music uses gapped scales where one or more diatonic scale degrees are missing. When we say a scale is a hexatonic scale, on guitar or any other instrument, we are simply saying the scale has six notes. Using the pentatonic scale is a good way for children to make up their own tunes. On this page youll find a complete guide to learning and using pentatonic scales on guitar. In addition to learning what the term hexatonic scale means, well also be focusing on two variants of the scale. Some uses of the hexatonic minor scale on guitar hexatonic minor scale quality family. An introductory lesson on the hexatonic scale hear and play.
It may also be called the minorthird halfstep scale due to the series of intervals produced 1. As i read your first few paragraphs i was really expecting your major hexatonic to be the maj pentatonic with the 7th added. The octatonic scale consists, as the name implies, of eight notes. Whole tones scales are underused in rock music, but their lack of tonal center provide great opportunities for a progressive sound. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. A lesson on the four most common hexatonic scales used on guitar hexatonic scales have 6 notes. It includes chapters on scale theory, several master indexes by mode count and note count, source scales, symmteric scales and hexatonic bitriadic scales. Continuing the pattern from e is the same hexatonic scale as the one starting on c since the symmetric hexatonic scale can only be transposed four times. The creation of this universal encyclopedia of scales was made possible by using the. Online pdfresize helps you change the page size of your pdf and, at the same time, maintain the proportions by scaling the contents as well. A pentatonic scale starting on c will use the notes c,d,e,g,a the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th notes of a major scale an easy way to find such a pentatonic scale is by using all the black notes of a keyboard. Next, the two most important types of hexatonic scales are described. Many modern piano players use hexatonic voicings by stacking the triads to create a particular harmony. The attractively balanced and highly musical e minor.
Pentatonic and hexatonic scales are a staple of the modern jazz sound from the 1960s onwards. Any scale with six notes is hexatonic by definition. The complete world of scales over the circle of fifths is now available on iphoneipad and mac os x. The classical hexatonic scale dictonary page on classic cat. This pdf version is the complete encyclopedia not a condensed. The e minor pentatonic scale is a useful and fun guitar scale to know. Thus, for example, if we begin with note c, the following whole tone scale is obtained.
A hexatonic scalewhich can also be thought of as a combination of two triadsis a sixnote scale. The scales form a iivivi pattern on the root of the chord. In the video i discuss several sixnote scale ideas from the wholetone to the prometheus. There are plenty of six note scales out there with funny names but rich gives you a practical approach to defining them and using them in your playing and even creating your own scales. There are plenty of six note scales out there with funny names but rich gives you a practical approach to defining them and using them in. In this lesson you were learn how to identify how the scale is constructed and how to apply it over standard jazz chord progressions. Each of the five chapters focuses on 1 of the 5 patterns of the caged system. Pentatonic scale simple english wikipedia, the free. There are plenty of six note scales out there with funny names but rich gives you a practical approach to defining them and using them in your playing and. I would imagine one difference would be the way they play on the guitar, different advantages and anti. The augmented scale, also known in jazz theory as the symmetrical augmented scale 1, is so called because it can be thought of as an interlocking combination of two augmented triads a augmented second or minor third apart.
Text is available under the creative commons attributionsharealike license. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. The tones in this scale, expressed as numbers from 0 to 11 0,2,3,5,7,10. Pdf the provenience, predominance, and persistence of. In this lesson, im going to focus on some of the interesting sounds you can get from hexatonic scales. Lydian dominant mode and hexatonic scale simplifying theory. Everything in this book is presented in the key of a minor so that you can see how it all relates together and so that you can begin to string licks together into larger ideas.
Hexatonic major scale guitar fretboard patterns chart. The major and minor scales of western art music are the most commonly known heptatonic scales, but different forms of seventone scales exist. Extract from pentatonic and hexatonic scales in jazz. There are a few ways you can conceptualize these scales.
We assume that for the purpose of defining a scale, a pitch is functionally equivalent to another pitch separated by an octave. The graphic below shows the scale degrees that are typically missing. Or maybe you feel like you are playing the same stagnate licks again and again. Medieval church modes, each having its characteristic pattern of whole and half steps. Each of the above listed triad pairs hexatonics is given a 48 page chapter and transposed to all 12 keys. Augmented scale reality 100 pages the 6 note hexatonic symmetrical augmented scale has been, historically speaking, somewhat of an enigma to practitioners of modern improvised music. He also gives the chord shape their pattern is based on.
Feb, 2017 for the uninitiated, a basic bebop scale is a major scale with an added passing tone between the 5th and 6th scale degrees ab in c maj. You may have noticed the similarities and differences between these scales unless you memorized them by rote which is much harder. The intriguingly exotic sound of the c lydian hexatonic scale. Jan 23, 2020 a hexatonic scale is simply a scale of six notes, though these six notes are bergonzk derived from two different mutually exclusive triads. Many modern sounds are derived from hexatonic scales.
This book presents a practical method for the construction of hexatonic scales that are useful for both the improviser and composer. Well, returning to the idea of lydian dominant, due the fact that we are doing g7 sounds like iv7, we can also try playing the hexatonic scale on it, because we already saw that there is more affinity between hexatonic and lydian dominant mode iv7 that between hexatonic and mixolydian dominant v7. In case you would like to resize your pdf documents locally, download pdfresize, install it then open programsneeviapdf and run pdfresize. Although each of these forms of itself comprises seven pitches, together they comprise nine, which might seem to call into question the scale s status as a heptatonic scale.
How to play like dickey betts of the allman brothers band. Forrest richard dickey betts, founding member of the legendary allman brothers band, successful solo artist and leader of his own ensemble, great southern, possesses one of the most distinct and influential guitar styles in the history of rock. Hexatonic scale missing either fa or mi, depending on the case. Figure 1 offers a useful way to get acquainted with the e minor hexatonic scale, with e minor and d major triad inversions on the top three strings leapfrogging each other up the neck. Hexatonic scale, also called sixnote scale or sixtone scale, musical scale containing six different tones within an octave. While it has shown up in the works of several noted late 19th, as well as early 20th century classical composers, noted examples of its usage in jazz have been limited to but a handful of the.
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