Six Essential Scales for `Ukulele

The six essential scales are: Blues Major Pentatonic Mixolydian Dorian Aeolian and Ionian From the six essential scales, you can get through a wide variety of traditional and contemporary music. A scale is simply a collection of pitches or notes, not really a "this is a Jazz scale", "this is a Blues" or "this is a Rock scale". It's how a scale is used that really matters not its name.

Author(s): Curt Sheller Publisher: Curt Sheller Publications Code: UL04

Main Category: Scales Main Instrument: Ukulele

Subjects: Chords

2024-05-24

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Six Essential Scales Blues Scale Chords of the Blues Scale Pentatonic Scale Chords of the Pentatonic Scale Ionian Scale Chords of the Ionian Scale Aeolian Scale Chords of the Aeolian Scale Dorian Scale Chords of the Dorian Scale Mixolydian Scale Chords of the Mixolydian Scale Connecting Scale Positions Navigating the C Major Scale Navigating the C Major Scale - Low G

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Six Essential Scales for `Ukulele

The six essential scales are: Blues Major Pentatonic Mixolydian Dorian Aeolian and Ionian From the six essential scales, you can get through a wide variety of traditional and contemporary music. A scale is simply a collection of pitches or notes, not really a "this is a Jazz scale", "this is a Blues" or "this is a Rock scale". It's how a scale is used that really matters not its name.

The Six Essential Scales are: Blues, Major Pentatonic, Mixolydian, Dorian, Aeolian, and Ionian. From the Six Essential Scale, you can get through a wide variety of traditional and contemporary music.

Most music starts with a scale. The melody, chords, licks, and riffs come from somewhere and can be related back to a particular scale or scales.

The order of learning depends on the styles and genres of music you are interested in, learning or performing. You can't go wrong, regardless of the type of music that you want to perform, to start with the Blues and Major Pentatonic scales.

Open Position scale shapes and MIDI examples are below of each of the Six Essential Scales.

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Here are the Six Essential Scales, in open position, the Key of C . Check out this video, The Seven Scale Modes, Open Position Examples to see the Ionian, Dorian, Mixolydian, and Aeolian scales played on ukulele in open position.

NOTE: Play each MIDI example to compare the sounds and inherent characteristic of each scale/mode.

Open Position Scale Shapes (roots): C Tuning: C, G Tuning: G, D Tuning: D

Baritone Note: For using this lesson, Six Essential Scales for `Ukulele with G Tuning: D G B E . The scale shapes will work and will produce the scale based on the root being G. All the notes will be based of the G Major Scale : G A B C D E F# G` . An example for the notes of the G Blues scale are: G Bb C C#/Db D F G` .

The Six Essential Scales

Below are the scale notes and names with a C root, their Standard Music Notation , and the intervals. All scale intervals are based on the Major scale intervals ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ) for comparison.