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Posted by Thomas S.
on 4/26/2009, 7:09 pm, in reply to "Re: Having trouble identifying this scale"
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Thanks for the reply!
I actually just made it up on my own (though I'm sure I'm not the first) while jamming along to a random backing track that came on my guitar amp.
I was just playing whatever felt good and realized that I was playing in a scale I didn't know how to name. Basically, I was playing a song in the key of A major, and thought it was sounding cool to use the major scale up to the fifth and then switch to natural minor for the sixth and seventh (not just in one octave or anything, but I was sticking to those notes).
Researching further online I found some people calling what I think is this scale the "melodic minor mixolydian mode" or just "melodic minor fifth mode." I didn't know that you could apply the idea of a mode to a different scale than major.
Is this a common way to name scales like this that aren't modes of the major scale?
Again, thanks for your reply and your input, it is much appreciated! I'm just a guitarist who pretends to be a musician so I need to learn this stuff :)
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