What's Your Favorite Scale?

[schweitzeralan]

I've got that Pelog scale stuck in my head, the one that sounds like Indo-Pacifica.

I'm also fond of Egyptian-sounding noodling.

And some of those modern, spectral "scales", or wot not,... they sure make dreamy chords!

Otherwise, it's straight up minor/minor harmonic.


I could to expand my pallette(?). Would you enlighten me?

I personally like the melodic minor.  It's used in works composed during the centuries, but I particularly like the mode used a great deal by Sibelius or by Scriabin in several of his later works, Vers la flamme,' is an example.  Also Alexander Krein internalizesthe mode frequently.  Vast subject.  No "better" than any scale or mode. Yet it prevails for me personally for some unknown reason or cause.  Also the mode prevails in the piano section of the Shire film score "Zodiac." Just an example.

[snyprrr]

I do like the scale I devised here.

That does have that Xenakian sieve sound.

[jochanaan]

I do like the scale I devised here.

Cool!  A scale that needs two octaves to include all the notes in order!

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

E-flat major, and it's relative minor (C min). (Bach BWV 552 and Bruckner 8 respectively)

[AndyD.]

I have a taste for the Hungarian and Phrygian minors, and of course the diminished minor. Much of these tastes were first acquired listening to Ritchie Blackmore and Ulrich Roth.

[snyprrr]

I have a taste for the Hungarian and Phrygian minors, and of course the diminished minor. Much of these tastes were first acquired listening to Ritchie Blackmore and Ulrich Roth.

Stargazer has a nice Middle Eastern feel to it.

[snyprrr]

Least Favorite Scale:

The Jerry Garcia, endless chromatic noodling scale

[AndyD.]

Stargazer has a nice Middle Eastern feel to it.

You might like Rainbow's Gates of Babylon, and Scorpions' Sails of Charon too, snyprrr.