{"id":19,"date":"2021-04-13T12:33:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T19:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2022-03-12T23:49:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T07:49:32","slug":"7-exotic-scales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/7-exotic-scales\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Ways to Make Boring Guitar Scales Sound Exotic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Download the scale diagrams<\/a><\/p>\n

The minor pentatonic scale is a great place to get started when you\u2019re learning how to play lead guitar. It\u2019s a highly effective way to start playing solos and writing your own riffs and licks. For many guitar players, the minor pentatonic scale is enough, but for others, it doesn\u2019t quite get the job done. So in this video lesson, Ayla Tesler-Mabe takes us on a journey around the globe to explore seven awesome ways to make your guitar scales sound more exotic.<\/span><\/p>\n

All seven of these new scales build off of the A minor pentatonic scale, so you can start adding these new colorful notes right away. You\u2019ll start off with a pretty standard way to spice things up before moving into the progressively more unconventional ones. Here are the seven scales you\u2019ll learn:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. A Blues Scale<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. A Dorian Scale<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. A Romanian\/Ukrainian Minor Scale<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. A Natural Harmonic Scale<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. A Hungarian Scale<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. A Hiraj\u00f5shi Scale<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. A Raga Asavari Scale<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    These scales are worth checking out in more depth \u2014 so download the scale diagrams under the video and try to find ways to incorporate them into your playing. For even more ways to add flavor to your guitar solos, check out this lesson: <\/span>Take Your Soloing To The Next Level By Using Modes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    You can make a simple minor pentatonic scale sound exotic, simply by adding different notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1659,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/1659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}