Originally Posted by: zreynoldspThe 'country' scale I was taught years ago was just a major pentatonic with the flattened fifths added...

Not being a country player, I never explored it.... but yeah, as far as I know it's essentially major (ionian)....

ZRP

A Major Pentatonic with a b5 added would more like a Lydian scale without the M7.

Maybe you mean it was called the "major jazz" scale by someone. Maybe someone based that off the Lydian Chromatic concept? Who knows.

I could see a Mixolydian scale with a b5 maybe being called a country scale.

Just read my tutorial and you can take all the names out of the equation. Because once you super impose a couple of basic scales, you end up with so many scales in one there's no need to really distinguish between them any more. It's all sounds, and it's all some sound a lot of people spend years trying to find, and trying to use for themselves.

They'll help your rock playing, you jazz, playing, your country playing, etc...again, once you understand how to use all those notes...there's hardly any style of music that doesn't use those notes.