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Basic Scales with Root A
Scales with Root A: Pentatonic
Scales with Root A: Blues
Scales with Root A: Bebop
Scales with Root A: Hexitonic
Scales with Root A: Diminished
Scales with Root A: Harmonic Minor
Scales with Root A: Altered
Scales with Root A: Whole Tones
Modes with Root A: Ionian
Modes with Root A: Dorian
Modes with Root A: Phrygian
Modes with Root A: Lydian
Modes with Root A: Mixolydian
Modes with Root A: Aeolian
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Summary: Learn how to play different scales and modes in the key of A in this free video on jazz music theory - whole tones scale.
Ryan Larson is a young jazz composer whose teaching technique focuses on the basics of music theory in all 12 keys. When applying his 12-key technique to understanding the logic behind...read more
"Now we have our A whole tones scale which is a repetitive whole step, whole step, whole step pattern. So we have whole, whole, whole, whole, whole, whole 6 notes and you can hear how it is really floating major minor key at all just in a little world in its own. Where is Dorthy. So now have this nice pattern and since it is such a repetitive pattern, there is only 2 whole tone scale. This G,A,B,D flat and E flat and F all have the same scale. Likewise G flat, A flat, C, D, and E all at the same scale. So you really have to go through and get these 2 scales down and that is your whole tone scale. "
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