Pedal Steel Guitar Harmonized Scales

Jesse leite harmonized scale patterns.

Pedal steel guitar harmonized scales. The example on the left is in the key of g major from home fret to home fret. Etc the country and blues scales the harmonic and melodic minors the enigmatic various asian and indian scales and many exotic scales. These scale pattern charts allow you to study each tuning as a separate entity. They are often used for solos or other melodic parts.

Harmonized scales can be composed of any intervals of the scale but are usually thirds and sixths. This is quite a jump from pedal steel i m more used to bill mccloskey member. Steel guitarists often use harmonized scales. This further makes the steel guitar unique in its approach to the creation of harmony.

All the instruments use the same scales they just lay differently on a pedal steel guitar. This dictionary really has every scale you will ever need to play in any genre of music. Check out the official app http a. The stringed instruments all work the same when it comes to the way scales make patterns.

Using a b changes this harmonized scale pattern works best when played using dyads two note groupings on string combinations 3 5 5 6 or 6 10. These are dyads that are in scale order. Just got an 8 string lap tuned to c6 can someone post some harmonized scales for me preferably without too many bar slants for now. Posted 25 july 2006 05 07 pm profile send email edit.