Over used scales (1 Viewer)

[drkdrk]

Lately i find i've been playing the E major scale absolutely everywhere. everytime i sit down to pen a tune i immediatley play something in E maj. and the damn minor pentatonic too, just can't help myself.
Anyone got a similar problem?

 

[Anthony]

If I knew what they were it would probably bother me

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

If I knew what they were it would probably bother me

Me too.

 

[therealjohnny]

Do you mean you play everything in the key of E major or minor...?

My musical theory isn't the best

 

[drkdrk]

Do you mean you play everything in the key of E major or minor...?

My musical theory isn't the best

Ya that's basically it,
E F# G# A B C# D# E

and minor pen
I bIII IV V bVIII
E G A B D

 

[timbot]

Doesn't every bluesrock band over-use the A minor pentatonic scale?

 

[drkdrk]

Doesn't every bluesrock band over-use the A minor pentatonic scale?

Exactly

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

folkies are always playing in open d tunings.

 

[drkdrk]

folkies are always playing in open d tunings.

God damn Hippies!!! Grrr..

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

i know!

 

[timbot]

folkies are always playing in open d tunings.

And metallers in Drop D.

If only they knew how much they had in common.

 

[Flux]

Stick it in a different tuning and let yr bearings get lost. Whenever I'm bored with standard tuning I go for

GCDGBE or mebbe DADGAD

(Actually, isn't DADGAD the folky one every hippy uses? The other one is quite Sonic Youthy)

 

[timbot]

I know Godspeed you Black Emperor named their first album after the tuning the guitars were in.

 

[Unicron]

I know Godspeed you Black Emperor named their first album after the tuning the guitars were in.

Damnit, now I have to rename DACFAE.

 

[therealjohnny]

Retune it and call it

D E F A c A t E

 

[HMD]

what about that band DAGDA

 

[classic seanc]

Stick it in a different tuning and let yr bearings get lost. Whenever I'm bored with standard tuning I go for

GCDGBE or mebbe DADGAD

(Actually, isn't DADGAD the folky one every hippy uses? The other one is quite Sonic Youthy)

I tuned to D A D F# A D one day, so an open chord would play D.
You know, nothing fancy, for a laugh, and I enjoyed it.

So I mentioned this in conversation to some musical mates. And one of them gave me a stern talking to about using different tunings. I don’t know what they are or how they are used. I’ll just end up doing things that I could probably easily do in a standard tuning, so therefore what was the point of doing it other than to be a wanker, disguising novelty as cleverness? The other two sat silently, occasionally furrowing their brows and nodding in agreement.

…..It was just a bit of fun lads. I haven’t been able to bring myself to touch the heads since

 

[therealjohnny]

I tuned to D A D F# A D one day, so an open chord would play D.

Rory Gallagher uses that a lot

I think if you change the F# to...something else.... you get the "Out on the Western Plain" tunning

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[Pedronimus]

You should all switch to the Harmonic Minor. The crown prince of scales.

 

[potlatch]

You should all switch to the Harmonic Minor. The crown prince of scales.

Yo, I hear ya. To get out of a rut, I started messing about with the Am natural the other day. I never really got in theory how playing the same chords as C would make any difference, but it really does. Same goes for modes, but as soon as I got it in my head that Am natural is the Aeolian mode, it all made sense. I'm also gonna mess around with the minor harmonic and melodic, and the whole-tone and whole-tone-half-tone scales for the laugh.