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Rock / Blues Scales & Modes for Guitar:
The Hexatonic Scale for guitar - 2
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We've already considered what hexatonic means, and identified four forms of hexatonic scale which every blues/rock guitarist should know.
To recap, those four forms of hexatonic scale are:
- the minor pentatonic with added augmented 4th / diminished 5th
- the minor pentatonic with added major 7th
- the major pentatonic with added minor 3rd
- the major pentatonic with added minor 6th
We've also looked at the first of those four scales, the minor pentatonic with added augmented 4th / diminished 5th, which can be called the minor hexatonic sharp 4.
Follow this link if you want to go over any of that again (or haven't seen that page yet).
On this page, we'll examine the second hexatonic scale from the list above, the minor pentatonic with added major 7th.
The minor pentatonic with added major 7th is, as it's name suggests, identical to the minor pentatonic scale, but with the addition of a major 7th between the minor 7th and root note of the scale. Like the added sharp 4 / flat 5 of the minor hexatonic sharp 4 scale, the added note of the minor pentatonic with added major 7th is most commonly used as a passing note, this time between the minor 7th and root note of the scale. The minor pentatonic with added major 7th can also be called the minor hexatonic major 7, which is how I'll refer to it from this point.
The intervals of the minor hexatonic major 7 scale are as follows: minor 3rd - perfect 4th - perfect 5th - minor 7th - major 7th - octave.
Let's see what the five positions of the minor hexatonic major 7 look like:
(By the way, the reason I refer to the major 7th of E major as being either a D# or an Eb is because in the tuning system known as equal temperament they are the same note).
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