It is not uncommon for rock guitarists to combine the Blues scale and Dorian together, or another way to look at it is to add the b5 to the Dorian scale. Play the Dorian w/b5 in the upper octave and a straight blues scale in the lower octave.....this technique was used by Hendrix, Santana, and Eddie Van Halen, as well as probably a few thousand others. It has been unofficially dubbed the Rock scale.
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A lot of rock music takes its cue from the blues, which utilizes minor scales over top of major chord progressions. Minor pentatonic and the Blues scale work quite well for this.
It is not uncommon for rock guitarists to combine the Blues scale and Dorian together, or another way to look at it is to add the b5 to the Dorian scale. Play the Dorian w/b5 in the upper octave and a straight blues scale in the lower octave.....this technique was used by Hendrix, Santana, and Eddie Van Halen, as well as probably a few thousand others. It has been unofficially dubbed the Rock scale.
It is not uncommon for rock guitarists to combine the Blues scale and Dorian together, or another way to look at it is to add the b5 to the Dorian scale. Play the Dorian w/b5 in the upper octave and a straight blues scale in the lower octave.....this technique was used by Hendrix, Santana, and Eddie Van Halen, as well as probably a few thousand others. It has been unofficially dubbed the Rock scale.
