4 Scales You Should Know
When it comes to guitar soloing, there are four scales that can be applied more often than any others. They are the Minor Pentatonic Scale, the Natural Minor Scale, the Major Scale and the Major Pentatonic Scale. Following are the most common patterns for each type. They include an easy-to-find root note on the heaviest (6th) string. These examples are all in the key of A.
Practice these patterns from the lowest-pitch root note to the highest note. Then descend from the highest note to the original root. This teaches both your ears and your fingers the full range of the pattern. Once you can do this, wander through and explore the sound of each scale. Or try them over appropriate jam tracks.
Metal Guitar Jam Track #2
I am really digging Wordpress. It is the ‘blogging’ software that I switched to a couple of months ago to run this website but, really, it does so much more. It is an excellent content management system, it has a built in comment function and it tracks popular posts and pages. And the price is right: FREE!
Anyway, I have consistently found my Metal Guitar Jam Track near the top of my most popular pages. Being as this site is for you, today I give you another metal jam track! Again in the key of A minor.
The following scales all work well:
The Phrygian mode adds an exotic character that is cool though it includes a B-flat note that is kind of a clunker against the F chord in the progression.
Any other jam track styles you want to hear more of? Maybe I am missing out on a new popular style? Polka/Reggae/Speed Metal hybrids? Let me know by commenting!
Metal Guitar Jam Track
Did you ever have one of those days you just feel like ROCKIN??!! That is just about every day for me 
And I hope to make this one of those days for you with the following METAL GUITAR JAM TRACK!!
The jam track pedals on the open 5th string A note while stabbing out a C major triad across strings 2, 3 and 4 at the 5th fret. The resulting Am7 tonality is truly METAL! Try any or all of the following minor tonality scales.
Now pick up that six-string and bash those frets into whimpering submission!
If you have questions, try my new message forum. It’s a beta test of my “Ask the Teacher” service. Have fun.
Storm Stenvold
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