Hi, i was just watching a satriani lesson video where he presents the symetrical scale and it looked really ceewl:P But i can't seem to find the scale online:/
I'm wondering if the scale is called different things, or if it's more then one scale.
THnx in advance;)

Google is your friend

http://davidvaldez.blogspot.com/2006/03/sy...diminished.html

Love that phrase hahaha

Wow thanx;)
But it's still a bit blurry too me how many Symetrical Scales are there?
And what's there names..

Just google it like phry said...

I found one picture

http://www.guitar-software.co.uk/images/gu...cale-finder.gif that was the first result on google images

i think you saw the video from the recent uk guitar magazine where joe expands on the pentatonic / blues scale and adds notes from a symmetrical scale...?

having had a quick look at the way joe introduces the particular symmetrical scale in that video the formula is

1 b2 b3 3 #4 5 6 b7

you can then go on to compare this scale to the standard minor pentatonic / blues scale and see which notes are changed / added to see where joe gets his extra "flavour" from

May i ask....


How would you work out which notes will "work" when throwing in notes from the symmetrical scale depending on the underlying chord or progression?

There must a sorta umm rule about which ones plain simply would and would not work so harmonically well?

Well your bog standard minor pentatonic is

1 b3 4 5 b7

so play some kind of lick using those notes, then add in one or more of the symmetric scale tones and see if it sounds cool or terrible. Use your ears ;) You might like the terrible stuff. Nobody can tell you it's wrong if you like it.

And remember it will likely sound completely different depending what chord(s) you're playing over, so experiment there too.

I think i got the general idea, thanx guys;)
Oh and thanx for the pictutre u found on Google Sir Chick, actually turned out to be a very usefull program (GuitarPower) :D

lol no problems dude ;)