I am pleased to offer these campanella scales inspired by the memory of John King. I never had a chance to meet him. However, as a fellow classical guitarist turned uker, his work has been central ...
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ukulele for geeks secrets of the pentatonic scales sxsw 2010
christian crumlish @mediajunkie
ukulele for geeks #ukuleleforgeeks or
#uke4geeks
ukulele for geeks #ukuleleforgeeks or
#uke4geeks
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Pentatonic scales for the win • Pentatonic means five tones • The black keys on a piano are a pentatonic scale • Every combination, even random ones, sounds good • Pentatonic scales can be used to accompany any song
Many songs use just 5 notes • My Girl • Under the Boardwalk* • Suicide is Painless • First There is a Mountain
Open strings • The open strings on a guitar are in a pentatonic scale (Gmaj / Emin) • The open strings on a uke are in an analogous scale (Cmaj / Amin), and are in many scales being just 4 strings • Thus “accidentally” hitting open strings is usually fine • The uke is basically “in C”
C maj pentatonic • CDE GA • To make it bluesy add Eb (aka D#) • C D (Eb) E G A
C min pentatonic • C Eb F G A • To make it bluesy add Gb (aka F#) • C Eb F (Gb) G A
about that blue note...
Forget the note names • It’s all about the patterns, yo • Little dippers, all in a row • That one weird string interval • Find the root or key and the patterns “just work” • Make “big dippers” to go to big-boy scales
Cowboy Scale (C maj)
One-string scale (C maj)
One-string scales (C maj)
One-string scales (C maj)
Little Dipper (C maj)
Little Dippers (C maj)
the “interface”
Little Dippers (C maj)
Little Blue Dippers (C maj)
Cowboy Scale (C min)
Blue Cowboy Scale (C min)
Little Dipper (C min)
Little Blue Dippers (C min)
Little Blue Dippers (C min)
The Key • Dippers are movable • Whatever key a song is in, just find the relative dippers • You don’t need to know the key • Just fiddle around till it “locks in,” then follow the pattern up and down the fretboard
Big Dippers • Five notes often not quite enough • “Under the Boardwalk” is hexatonic • Many songs are diatonic, etc. • So learn how to extend the little dippers into big dippers to make larger sales
