However, this one supposedly minor change makes a world of difference. After all, it’s pretty much a Dorian mode with the fourth interval raised by a semitone. However, Dorian with an augmented fourth interval is the easiest way to get into these weird scales. Maybe it’s not as dark and weird as the rest of the scales on the list. Try and write some riffs in it and see if you can make a song out of it. Other than that, it’s a great way for you to experiment. It builds a diminished chord, so you can play it over one. It’s also hard to implement this scale in practice, at least in conventional music. Shouldn’t it be a natural sixth? Well, technically, it’s the seventh interval, and you have to have two flats. Some may feel confused by the use of two flats on the seventh interval. Meaning that you just lower them by an additional semitone. Here’s what this scale looks like:Īs you can see, all you have to do is diminish fourth and minor seventh intervals. But once you’ve got a hang of Locrian, you can just alter two notes and get the super Locrian bb7. The scale is as weird as its name suggests. Here’s the tab for it: Super Locrian bb7Īn interesting twist on the Locrian scale is the super Locrian double-flat seventh. Sure, I might have given the most attention to the least desirable scale here.
It’s that eerie feeling of suspense that doesn’t end. However, if you combine these with the minor seventh interval, it just gets nowhere.īut that just might be the thing that you’re looking for. The minor third and the minor sixth add some melancholy to it. This is the numerical representation of the scale:įlat second and diminished fifth intervals kind of make it sound tense.
The reason behind this is the distribution of intervals. I could say the same thing about the entire scale. It sounds kind of tense but also kind of resolved at the same time. The seventh chord that it builds is a semi-diminished one. Now, what’s weird about the Locrian mode is that it doesn’t resolve anywhere.
The only kind of famous example is Bjork’s “Army of Me.” Here’s a video giving more details on the song. In fact, there’s hardly any song that uses it. Now, Locrian is the natural major scale mode that everyone seems to avoid. Or you can just write a whole passage or a riff in this scale. And it’s hard to implement it in practice. Some people also refer to it as a six-tone equal temperament. You can also write the last degree as the minor seventh and just omit the sixth. Fourth, fifth, and sixth degrees are augmented. It goes like this:Īs you can see, it only has six degrees. Let’s present all the degrees numerically and create the scale from the natural major. The entire scale consists of whole notes. If you’re interested in something a bit awkward-sounding, check out the whole-tone scale. It’s a traditional Japanese scale that sounds a bit weird.Īside from the root note we have a minor second, perfect fourth, diminished fifth, and minor seventh intervals. But it’s nowhere near the pentatonic minor that we are used to. This is technically a pentatonic scale since it has only five notes. You won’t often stumble upon the Hirajōshi scale. In some cases, you can also use them for pieces that are in Phrygian dominant, but not with the same root note.Īnd this is what the second one looks like: Hirajōshi One of them starts with a whole step and the other one starts with a half step.īut you can play both of them in the same settings. It alternates between whole and half steps. The diminished scale is the simplest example. These will be in the 5th position, all with A as the root note. In this guide, I’ll share a few of those. And they’re really hard to put within that context. For the most part, these are scales that you rarely hear in modern music. Nonetheless, there are some scales to which people tend to refer to as dissonant. So the beauty is in the ear of the listener, so to speak. But if you use it in a certain chord, like add9 chords, it will sound appealing to most. If you play a simple semitone interval on its own, it may sound awful. So pretty much any scale can do that.Īdditionally, what’s dissonant in one context can also sound great in other. Dissonance refers to two or more notes that sound off. You’ll first need to know that, technically, there’s no such thing as a dissonant scale.
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