Understanding Hexatonic Scales

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Andrew Wasson of Creative Guitar Studio answers a viewers question...

Q: Hi Andrew, you are my favorite internet guitar teacher! I have a question that nobody has been able to answer. I would like to know what Hexatonic Scales are? They seem really mysterious and I cant find any good lessons on the internet about them. Can you cover them please!
- Chaz, Phoenix, AZ.

Hexatonic scales are simply any type of scale containing six notes. A perfect example is the Blues scale. It has six notes. Another common example is the Whole-Tine scale. In the video I discuss several six-note scale ideas from the Whole-Tone to the Prometheus scales.

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[sarracatuf]

Hi, just one question, the song of the ending is just an improvisation of yours, or a particular piece? I liked it very much, hope you tell me. Greetings

[creativeguitarstudio]

@sarracatuf ... Yes, that is one of my songs from off of my album. The album is available from off of the CreativeGuitarStudio[dot]com website for instant download. Thanks for the kind words.

All the best,

Andrew Wasson

[jippie11261]

I don't understand why you said that pentatonic is one type of scale 01:36.

The pentatonic is a few scales, isn't it? Like major and minor, and the

Blues and also the major pentatonic? Am I missing something...

Sorry for maybe asking a dumb question!

Thanks for the lesson here today Andrew!

[creativeguitarstudio]

@jippie11261 Not a dumb question at all... The common, "Western-World" Pentatonic is a type of scale that removes the half-steps from the basic Major & Natural Minor Scales. There are however other Pentatonic types (modes and scales of the world), that create other interval designs.

Hope this makes sense!

Thanks for Watching.

- Andrew Wasson

[richcochrane]

@Gui222Gui Definitely, I first encountered Bergonzi's superimposed-triad approach many years ago and it changed the way I thought about scales in general. Well worth a look.

[LedWilde]

Scales are endless. (Or something like that.) 1-3-4-6-10-11

[getsuga97]

there's also the whole tone scale.

[Metalcross1354]

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[Gui222Gui]

I prefer to think triads superposition when talking about hexatonic, D/C for exemple.

And any triads that don't have common notes works well (major over minor, minor over minor, augmented over augmented, etc.) The tough job is to remember which superposition works on which chords :P

Jerry Bergonzi wrote a very good books about hexatonic scales if someone need a complete book about it.

[BigIdeasLondon]

@GuitaristWayneWhite That doesn't sound very likely to me, but I guess it's possible there's some Greek connection (besides the title of Sciabin's composition, of course). Can you give us a reference to somewhere where this is discussed?

[sliknutzzzz]

hahaha...at 1st i thought he was gonna bust out the simpsons theme song! lol

[philnoll]

@GuitaristWayneWhite What I'm finding online is that the term was invented by Leonid Sabaneev. You may be right, but its just not what I'm finding online anywhere

[GuitaristWayneWhite]

@philnoll This scale is so named not because of Scriabin but because of the Greek scholars and philosophers that discovered it while studying the instrument known as the monochord, which was in reality a piece of metal wire that was stretched across a board and tightened. I can see why you would think that but that is a history mistake. It's all good, you can check what I am saying out and see what I am talking about. I had to repy to this because of a music history course series I took.

[Lydian7lc]

@creativeguitarstudio What pickups are you using? and what is that black box on your guitar??